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Summary: Honestly, I bought the wrong thing.
Comment: I intended to get a shorter cable, something more like 6" but I wasn't really paying attention when I went and bought this one. I wanted to buy it so I could use it for my iphone because the charger cable is so ridiculously short. It works for this, kinda, but read on for more information.
The cable is mostly unexceptional. It's grey and has a plastic jacket. The cable itself seems a bit thin, but then USB is only 4 conductors. The ends are sorta thick and durable feeling, so I guess that's a plus. The connector shields were tin with gold pins. The shield material doesn't matter, though, since that's not even electrically connected to anything.
Now, for this cable to actually work, you'll quite likely need some kind of powered hub that can handle the extra impedance. My computer's onboard USB could not. I tried it with an external DVD drive (Though that may have worked if I used the external power supply.) and my iphone. The DVD drive would just spin up a bit, then die and reset, over and over again. The drive was never accessible to the operating system. The iphone just gave an error about how it couldn't charge from that device or something like that. The iphone did, however, accept it when I plugged it in to the little AC adapter thingy.
I didn't do any extensive testing with it, and it really does sorta work for what I needed it for, but this is just a warning: use a powered hub!
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Summary: cables to my keyboard.
Comment: My cable that came with my poot'r was too short. This one worked out just great. Length to spare. No complaints.
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Summary: Works, but beware
Comment: Sometimes you might wonder, "you know, the USB cable that came with this cell phone/controller/hard drive/other things is not long enough; I could something to extend its reach." I know where you are coming from, and I figured you would consider something like this. Here, I bought one; here's my take on things.
The cable came in a plastic bubble, tightly coiled around to fit in as small a plastic bubble as it possibly can. The color is a little darker than you would see in the picture, but then you are not buying this because it looks pretty. And it might look darker due to my room lighting.
The build quality looks quite good. While it does not have anything fancy like a woven sleeve or built-in LED, it feels as though it can handle years of service. You can see, though, that the female side of the cable is not very protected; in fact, it looks like a mutated male part. It is sturdy as well, trust me, but it would have been better if it were protected by the plastic that surrounded the lower part of the connector. It might accumulate more debris and dirt than it would otherwise, but I have not used this long enough to go through such an endeavor and live to tell the tale.
It works marvelously in conjunction with shorter cables. I had a six-inch-long A to Mini B cable, which worked very well. I also had a 3-foot cable of the same kind, so I tried that--but the cable did not let the signal go through. There is a label on one end of the cable: "Caution-do not exceed ten feet of total cable distance on low-speed device or sixteen feet on high speed devices." This was USB 2.0 hard drive--a high speed device. Sixteen feet was maximum length allowed, and this cable itself is 10 feet long, so any moderately long cable is going to strain the signal that tries to go to and from the device.
It is a great product, but it puts a lot of the cables suddenly to the edge of usability. I would recommend its use with shorter (3 feet and under) USB cables. Otherwise, you might be better off getting a shorter extension cable, or an active USB cable like Tripp Lite U026-016 USB2.0 16-Feet Certified Active Extension Cable.
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Summary: Great deal AND guaranteed at 2.0 by Belkin
Comment: I apparently already had one and purchased another a few days ago. Although the box states 12 Mbps on the front, on the back of the package it lists that it has been tested with high speed devices. Also, on Belkin's website, it also states the cable is 2.0 A quick call to Belkin confirmed that it is 2.0 compatible.
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Summary: Works fine, looks old (strange grey color)
Comment: The cable itself is good, looks durable and works fine.
The only thing I don't like is the color. It's kind of gray, so it looks old.
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