I found it at the dollar store.

  • @LesserAbe
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    81 year ago

    Not that you probably need to know this, but for some other stranger: there’s a max functional length to USB cables. At work I remember pulling my hair out troubleshooting a printer until we swapped cables for something shorter.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      And that max length goes down with each coupling.

      We have smart boards in most classrooms, but in an entire wing of my department the smart board doesn’t work. Reason? When we built the wing, 8 or 10 years ago, the installers fitted their own low grade plugs on the USB connection for the boards, before figuring out that they snipped the cables too short. Instead of running new cabling the installers then introduced another extension.

      Nobody cared to check it out before accepting delivery and my complaints went unheard by management, until it was too late to RMA it.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      That said, there are “active” USB extension cables which draw current from the power lines and use it to boost the signal along the data lines

    • Polar
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      21 year ago

      Meanwhile I have 25ft cables running my large format vinyl printers lol

      • @sysadmin420
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        21 year ago

        My large format vinyl printer uses Ethernet. TIL there are USB vinyl printers. What kind of printer do you have? Latex 260 here

        • squiblet
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          11 year ago

          We had a 53" US Cutter and it attached to the computer by USB. If we’re talking about the same thing.

          • @sysadmin420
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            1 year ago

            He said printer though that’s what’s what threw me off. That’s a cutter. My bad I thought he was talking about a USB large format printer, I only replied because I’m looking for a slightly smaller printer for my smaller decals, and I’d be interested in a serial or USB printer.

            My PC is in the basement and I’ve got USB and serial going everywhere running different cutters, 3d printers, CNC, etc upstairs and down, also in the garage. Works great.