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!Get more detail about Belkin F3U134-10 USB Extension Cable (10-Feet).
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