Comment by lloydatkinson
3 days ago
Are you suggesting there is no middle ground and that simply knowing if a USB-C cable is a USB C cable or a fake one can't be done with a cheap tester?
3 days ago
Are you suggesting there is no middle ground and that simply knowing if a USB-C cable is a USB C cable or a fake one can't be done with a cheap tester?
> Are you suggesting there is no middle ground
Sadly yes.
Like many people on that thread concluded:
The best "middle ground" thing you can do is pay a premium to buy your cables from reputable manufacturers.
Buying my cables from decent manufacturers does not tell me what specific version of USB a cable purports to support, what voltage of USB-PD it can transmit, whether or not it can do Thunderbolt or DisplayPort, or a dozen other random capabilities inherent in these cables.
> Buying my cables from decent manufacturers does not tell me what specific version of USB a cable purports to support
A $40 toy won't tell you if the marker chips it has just read are fake / counterfeit.
You need the expensive kit for that.
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