And the 6ft cable is long enough to be useful but not so long as to get in the way when you connect a laptop to modem. 6ft serial USB RS232 converter data cord is shielded to protect your data from EMI/RFI noise, and is long enough to be useful but not so long as get in the way.
I hooked my rs232 cable to the rs232 to USB cable I purchased after installing the software cd. It worked perfectly I was able to get the connection from my auto code scanner to my laptop. It all worked like a charm. I definitely recommend this cable to anyone who needs to use an old Rs232 cable and otherwise have no way to connect to a modern computer that doesn’t have the rs232 port.