Tripp Lite U026-016 USB2.0 16-Feet Certified Active Extension Cable by Tripp Lite
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Digital camera reviews of Tripp Lite U026-016 USB2.0 16-Feet Certified Active Extension Cable
Digital camera Review: Great for remote Digital Camera control and pictures.
Summary: 5 Stars
I use this cable to connect my camera to my computer from across the room. It works fine, no noise is generated into the pictures and no loss of signal back and forth as far as I can see.. Nice and sturdy, like most Tripp Lite products. Mine is black, not the clear as pictured.Digital camera Review: Great for using w/ Xbox Kinect & Home Projector
Summary: 5 Stars
I use a ceiling mounted projector for our Xbox. The console set up on the side of the room about 20'away from the screen. I put the Kinect sensor just under our projector screen and use the the Tripp lite cable to give us the proper reach to the console. Works like a champ, much better than I expected.
Digital camera Review: Great product
Summary: 5 Stars
Technically, it's a single-port "Generic USB hub" in hardware configuration - but it truly does the job very well. Serious quality in this product - highly recommended!Digital camera Review: Highly Recommend Tripp Lite Extension Cable
Summary: 5 Stars
We Love this product. We needed it to go 60ft inside a metal building and hook up to the internet. It has worked perfectly. It is a very well made product and felt that the price was not out of line compared to some others we had looked at. We highly recommend it.Digital camera Review: In reality, its a 1 port active hub and 16 foot extension
Summary: 5 Stars
USB is a complicated protocol so lets get to simplification.
USB Power is 5V +/- 0.5 V and 500 mA current. About 2.5 watts of power are available. The reason alot of external usb hubs come with a wall wart is if you have 4 devices each drawing 500 ma, that's more than the computer gives you, and something will have to be removed without external power. The wallwart is usually a 5.5V, 2A or less power supply so that each usb port can have the full 500ma on a 4 port hub, neglecting the data rates which are transparently handled on usb 2.0
As for cables, the standard USB cable was defined as 6 feet, just like power cords are 6 feet most commonly. Following the power cord tradition, USB offered a 10 foot extension for a maximum distance of 16 feet before the signal degraded too much to be usable. Hence you'll find 10 foot PASSIVE extension cables in the $9 price range, which you can combine with your existing 6 foot cable for 16 feet total.
The real advantage here is there is a low power (<50mA) "1 port" hub at the end of this 16 foot extension - that regenerates your high speed usb signals for your device. It does steal some power, allowing 450 mA for the device, but most devices don't complain about not having the full 500 mA to themselves with a few exceptions for battery containing devices that must charge and disk drives that get their power from the usb cable.
Now at the end of this you can put another 10 foot extension and 6 foot cable for 32 feet of total length if needed for outdoor or room to room usb. It's a great product to get around the 10 foot extension common length limit.
Often I have "usb radio fobs" or radio transmitters for wireless keyboards. By putting them high up the wall and onto the ceiling, I can carry the wireless device that works with the fob a long ways away - much further than if the fob is hidden down behind the pc chassis on the floor. The 16 feet gives me adequate length to go over then up the wall and into the center of the room for best coverage.
Overall I much prefer the active extension cable to the passive since the signal received at the PC will be just as good as if the device were plugged directly in. Tripp Lite uses a well shielded cable for exceptional quality and very low signal loss in the run back to the PC. While priced more, it is an active hub and you get that added value from the product.