

In order to keep integrity, it consumes power. See with USB standards, the signal degrades as it travels pretty fast. Why does this work with jsuch a horrible setup? The reason I told you to use the extra powered USB ports.

It get the best speeds I have seen listed. It’s a nightmare are jimmy rigged as heck. then 15 ft ugreen cord, then 5 ft Amazon basics cord plus coupler. Then I finish the run by attaching a Amazon basics usb 3.2 gen 2 10gbps type a to type c cable to attach to the quest 2 Some weird names pop up store company from Asia. Then I attach a usb 3.1 coupler I bought for like $6 on Amazon. (Usb 3 naming standards are a mess so many revisions and changes over the past two years). The cord I currently use is a 15 ft Ugreen usb 3 5gbps type A to type A cable. Once that is done, plug in your long cable into one of the top three ports as these are the “data/power ports” that provide an 1.5A of power instead of 900mA. Plug the host usb cord (provided) into your mobo usb 3.2 gen 1 port, ideally a fast charging port if your mobo has one as these pliers can deliver 1.5-2.4A instead of the usual 900mA. It’s titled “usb 3.1 powered 60W usb hub 10 slot”. I bought one on Amazon from their Amazon Basics brand. An easy way to max out your speed on a long run is to add a self power usb 3.1 data/power hub to the chain. So anyways that should answer your speed question for the usb 3.2 gen 1 setup. Sadly thunderbolt is extremely niche and that will only get worse now that apple has acquired the Intel team behind thunderbolt. Reason being the same reason as to how you can daisy chain 6 freaking devices before you need to add another power source to the chain. Thunderbolt is a whole different story and does not usually experience those kind of speed differences. This is the limitation of higher speeds on usb standards. For example, on usb 3.2 gen 2 10gbps cables, the max you would see is only 5.8-6.2 gbps. in reality, one usb 3.2 gen 1, the max you would prob be able to see with the perfect situation and setup would be around 3.6-3.8 gbps. They don’t account for any overhead, backhaul, degradation, interference, etc. That’s becuase these are theoretical limits. You will never get or see 5gb/s on usb3.1 gen 1 (now officially renamed to usb 3.2 gen 1) 5gbps spec’d cables.
