Review on 🔌 Cable Matters Active USB 3.0 Extension Cable with Signal Booster - 10 Meters / 32.8 Feet - Ideal for Hard Drive, Webcam, and More by Jason Cartwright

If you have a good one, it works well - impressive speed over such a long cable. Even with a passive extension of 10-15 feet at the end of the device. Solidly built, it has a good "weight". BUT USB 3.0 itself seems very finicky in many ways, so different combinations give different results. What I mean is that a given cable can run at its highest speed on one motherboard port, but on another port on the same motherboard it can fall back to USB 2.0 speeds or anywhere in between. Details at end.NET: 2 of these 10m active cables DIFFERENT STATES testing *EVERY* USB 3.0 port I have including 2 motherboard connectors (with adapters). While BOTH can run at maximum speed on some ports, a cable will drop to slower speeds on other ports. I tested with and without power, with 3 different motherboard connector adapters (one adapter had a bad connector that never exceeded USB 2.0 speeds: TEST TEST TEST!) and 2 different passive extension cords on either end - lots of combinations. Most interestingly, the connectors on the back of the motherboard were worse than using the motherboard connectors! CONCLUSION: Works well, but CHECK *YOUR* installation! 2015 (i.e. latest drivers etc as of that date). The device was a USB 3.0 stick (128 GB PNY) with a maximum read speed of around 160 Mbit/s. Therefore, these results are based on a maximum speed of 160 Mbit/s. Active + 15' " = active cable with a 15' passive cable added to the device side (not the host side). "pwr" means the power supply was used on the active extension. If not enabled , this means that the behavior was the same with and without the power supply (the active cable draws power for its amplifier from the host's USB power supply. The adapter is only needed to support power-hungry devices such as a hard drive, hub, etc. ) YMMV, even with the same motherboard, active and passive cables - hence my tests and this review And yes, some tests don't make sense @35 Bottom Bracket Straight @160 10' @160 15' @160 Active @160 Active + 15' @ 160 Active + 15' + 10' @160External USB Top Bracket 10' ext OK , 15' FAIL, 15' + 10' @35 Active @35 bottom bracket 10' extra OK , 15' OK, 15' + 10' @35 Active @160 Active + 15' Sometimes SLOW Active + 10' @160 Active + 15' + 10' @160 3' Hub + Active + 15' + 10' up&down 10' + Active NO 3' Stroke + 10' + Active NO Active + 15' + 10' + 3' Stroke NO Active (pwr) + 15' + 10' + 3' Stroke up&d Active + 15' + 3' Stroke @ 160 Active + 15 ' + 3' Hub + 10' @160MOTHERBOARD Active @35 10&15' only passive @180 bottom left: active @35 10&15' only passive @180 middle bottom: active @35 10&15' only passive @180 middle top: active @35 10&15 ' passive only @180 top right: active @35 10&15 passive only @180 active + Pwr @80 bottom right: active @35 10&15 passive only @180 active + Pwr @160 active #2 + Pwr @160