If it's a USB-A to USB-C or Micro-B cable, try connecting your smartphone or camera to a computer — you'll know instantly if it's a cable that can accommodate data transfer.

Examine the eMarker Higher-performance charging or data transfer USB-C to USB-C cables feature an embedded eMarker chip that tells the phone, tablet, laptop, and charger just what the cable ...

Bridged cables do not share a power source. Some USB ports are only designed for data, and do not provide any power. You can use powered or non-powered USB ports when connecting computers directly.

Here’s how it works: If you’re using a Chromebook, you’ll now get a pop-up if you plug in a USB-C cable that’s not compatible with monitors, or has a slower data transfer rate than your ...

However, data transfers with the cable are limited to USB 2.0 speeds and will max out at 480mbps. That’s much slower than the 40Gbps transfer speeds offered by other 240W USB-C cables.

If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or an iPhone 15 Pro Max and want to transfer data at high speed (10Gbps), you will want a Thunderbolt/USB 4 cable or USB 3.1 Gen 2/USB 3.2 Gen 2 cable.

Data Link Cable from CablesToGo, suggested by Robert Fage of Ottawa: Almost all computers (and all new ones) are equipped with Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports. Anyone with more than one computer ...

One big selling point is its data transfer rate: 32Gbps initially, then 64Gbps when PCI Express 4.0 arrives, said Michael Krause, chairman of the PCI Express Cable Workgroup (and a Hewlett-Packard ...

Today, the most popular USB spec is the USB 3.2 Gen 1 protocol that allows a maximum throughput of 5Gbps to travel over a single lane of data. It can use an old-school Type-A rectangular plug or ...

GPU aside, the Link’s recommended PC specs are the same as those for the Rift S: an Intel i5-4590, AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, or faster CPU, 8GB of RAM, Windows 10, and a single USB 3.0 port.

Oculus Quest can function as a PC VR headset with the Oculus Link feature which was introduced in beta late last year. At launch the feature only supported USB 3.0 cables, which somewhat awkwardly ...