Im satisfied for now with the N1200, it seems to get my data over fast enough, however i'm trying to make my outgoing to PC from intermediate receiver PIC provide a "fixed length string" when it transmits its data (decimal) values to the PC. But this is quite hard cause i cant seem to figure out how to count the lenth of my outgoing string, which varies slightly with larger byte values. I want to make my input string a fixed length in vb i think it make parsing alot simpler as sometimes the entire "stream" is not received. sometimes a string will be chopped up or the beginning is with the end of another transmission etc... i think it will simplify this "push" and "poll" method i seem to be working.

actually im not even polling now its using vb comm controls event received "OnComm" for the input data.