how to find a good USB cable? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Acamon@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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I feel like some usb cables are great, allow my devices to charge fast, connect to data reliably, etc. But it seems so difficult to find the ones that are good! I've tried buying expensive ones but it seems pretty hit and miss. Sometimes some cheapass aliexpress cable seems to beat the "good brands".

Are there standards or anything I should look out for? USB drives, sd cards, and the like have read/write speeds or different "classes" but usb cables seem to all claim to be brilliant.

Am I just being dumb?

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[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

While monster cables are absolutely a joke of a product, there is different quality between cables. I have 3 different usb a to usb c 3.0 cables and they are all different. One of them charges so poorly my phone chucks a warning, one does about double standard speed and the 3rd one maxes out my phones fast charge.

Some usb3 cords just don't have any shielding at all. It's nearly always super dirt cheap ones, but you can still buy them if you don't know the difference.

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