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by nawi 60 days ago
this is great, does usb cable has some limitation? can i take any length? i saw you measure 4m any advices longer cable?
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I've tried longer cables on the slower USB's. My experience is that it can be touch and go depending on the peripheral. As I understand it, cable length is limited by the round-trip time between the host and the peripheral.

Where I've had good and bad "luck" with USB cabling is video cameras, which require a fairly high bandwidth data stream.

I'm also wondering what the cable length figures in the cheat mean exactly.