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Answer» Is there a difference between USB cables or do they all work the same regardless whether you have a 1.0 or 2.0 device. If there is a difference, how can you tell? I have many USB cable lying AROUND and want to be able to use them when needed. They're all the same. 1.0, and 2.0 concerns ports, not cables.Quote from: michaewlewis on October 08, 2007, 10:33:51 AM They're all the same. Ah, the CERTAINTY of youth! You've seen and tested every single USB cable in the world, have you? Including the ones in my HOUSE? (How did you get in?) Well, if you had, you'd know that the blue one that came with that el-cheapo webcam is rubbish. (So is the webcam, but let's not go there.) Quote Fully compliant Original USB cables will work fine at Hi-Speed USB speeds. USB cables are not all fully Original USB compliant. And that's from USB.org, who ought to know. People find that KVMs for example don't work too well with low quality cables. Cheap cables are often OK for USB 1.1 devices and/or situations where they don't get flexed very much. You can generally tell a GOOD one because it will have "Belkin" written on it. That was a joke, but the only way to be sure is to get reputably branded cables. Cheap ones often only have one layer of shielding and inferior insulation material inside, so if they are handled, or coiled/uncoiled a lot, or used in a warm place, or just with the passage of TIME they can deteriorate. So a cheap cable might be OK to connect your printer to your PC or hub where it is just going to sit there, but the one which you use to link your mp3 player or phone every day or so might need to be a good one.Quote from: contrex on October 08, 2007, 11:45:17 AM Quote from: michaewlewis on October 08, 2007, 10:33:51 AM They're all the same. Ah, the certainty of youth! You've seen and tested every single USB cable in the world, have you? Including the ones in my house? (How did you get in?) Well, if you had, you'd know that the blue one that came with that el-cheapo webcam is rubbish. (So is the webcam, but let's not go there.) Sorry, I thought that it would be obvious that a low quality cable would be just that, low quality. Where I work, we don't get low-grade anything, and I don't cut myself short at home either, so you're right, I wouldn't know about them.

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Is there a difference between USB cables or do they all work the same regardless whether you have a 1.0 or 2.0 device. If there is a difference, how can you tell? I have many USB cable lying AROUND and want to be able to use them when needed. They're all the same.
1.0, and 2.0 concerns ports, not cables.Quote from: michaewlewis on October 08, 2007, 10:33:51 AM

They're all the same.

Ah, the CERTAINTY of youth! You've seen and tested every single USB cable in the world, have you? Including the ones in my HOUSE? (How did you get in?) Well, if you had, you'd know that the blue one that came with that el-cheapo webcam is rubbish. (So is the webcam, but let's not go there.)

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Fully compliant Original USB cables will work fine at Hi-Speed USB speeds. USB cables are not all fully Original USB compliant.

And that's from USB.org, who ought to know.

People find that KVMs for example don't work too well with low quality cables. Cheap cables are often OK for USB 1.1 devices and/or situations where they don't get flexed very much. You can generally tell a GOOD one because it will have "Belkin" written on it. That was a joke, but the only way to be sure is to get reputably branded cables. Cheap ones often only have one layer of shielding and inferior insulation material inside, so if they are handled, or coiled/uncoiled a lot, or used in a warm place, or just with the passage of TIME they can deteriorate. So a cheap cable might be OK to connect your printer to your PC or hub where it is just going to sit there, but the one which you use to link your mp3 player or phone every day or so might need to be a good one.Quote from: contrex on October 08, 2007, 11:45:17 AM

Quote from: michaewlewis on October 08, 2007, 10:33:51 AM
They're all the same.

Ah, the certainty of youth! You've seen and tested every single USB cable in the world, have you? Including the ones in my house? (How did you get in?) Well, if you had, you'd know that the blue one that came with that el-cheapo webcam is rubbish. (So is the webcam, but let's not go there.)

Sorry, I thought that it would be obvious that a low quality cable would be just that, low quality.
Where I work, we don't get low-grade anything, and I don't cut myself short at home either, so you're right, I wouldn't know about them.

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