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Review of a tester extracting the functionality of USB-C cables (www.getusb.info)

submitted 1 week ago by quiescentcurrent@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

240W Data Speed?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What, never heard of powerline networking? 😂

[–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

What-bits per sometimes

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Available via kickstarter. 😑

[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Already met it's goal.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When it is a realized actual product, I'll be happy to look into it.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They do have a prior project that has been delivered successfully.

Basically the same device minus the screen with just a bare board with LED indicators and powered by a coin cell battery:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/electr/c2c-caberqu-usb-c-cable-tester

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So is this review based on a prototype?

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kickstarter = no

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you get burned once?

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Yep, the product was already backed and they were supposedly shipping. Luckily it was a very cheap thing, I did it mostly to try the thing.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why is it not possible to do this by connecting phone to pc and running this as software? This is cool but would be nice to avoid the extra hardware.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

I'm guessing the hardware is necessary for full info. Your phone probably doesn't support 240W so it wouldn't be able to tell if the cable was able to hit that charging rate.

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

Because you could fry your PC.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/google-engineer-finds-usb-type-c-cable-thats-so-bad-it-fried-his-chromebook-pixel/ USB Type-C cable so bad it fries Google engineer's Chromebook Pixel

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

With the paragraph covering counterfeit cables, I wonder if it tests incorrectly mapped pinouts. I recall that being a pretty wild QA issue with a bunch of previous cables. Even name brand ones.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If the article wasn't written in low-contrast, i could actually read it.