Brick-and-mortar stores with "superspeed" USB cables...?

[UA_User]

Hey all, Picked up my Solo. There was no USB cable in the box... oh well, I've got plenty of USB cables, right?

Installation hangs and asks for "superspeed" USB cable, on every cable I tried. Never heard of a 'superspeed' usb cable.

Any idea if this one will work? It's all I can find in stock locally:

Insignia™ 3.3’ USB-C to USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 Superspeed+ 10Gbps Cable Black NS-PCKCC3 - Best Buy

 

[chrisso]

I use Pluggable. They sell various cables at different quality and speed levels:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plugable-10Gbps-USB-IF-Certified-Type-C/dp/B01E4NPPGW?ref_=ast_sto_dp

 

[UA_User]

Labeled about the same as the one I linked... Guess I'll have to make the drive to best buy and give it a shot...

 

[UA_User]

In case anyone is ever in the same boat and doing a forum search, this 3.9ft cable I found at Best Buy is working perfectly so far:

USB4® 40Gbps Full-Featured USB-C® Coaxial Cable – j5create

Quite robust build quality as well (you never know for sure with these things, but it's beefy and well protected by the braiding - more appropriate for a studio aesthetic)

All the other cheaper ones available in the store were vague or sketchy on listed specs.

It's possible this or something similar could be found at a Walmart or whatever. So, there may be a few local options for these cables in a pinch. Good luck!

 

[Neotrope]

superspeed is usually usb 3.0 often noted with blue on pcs and 10x faster than usb 2.0 ....most modern cables with tyoe a or tyoe c connectors ate usb 3 unless they have a single square connection on one end for old printers or scanners....i tecently recycled all my old usb cables to avoid thisvery issue. many new hardware devices no longer come with cable to avoid ewaste.

 

[UA_User]

superspeed is usually usb 3.0 often noted with blue on pcs and 10x faster than usb 2.0 ....most modern cables with tyoe a or tyoe c connectors ate usb 3 unless they have a single square connection on one end for old printers or scanners....i tecently recycled all my old usb cables to avoid thisvery issue. many new hardware devices no longer come with cable to avoid ewaste.

The computer in this case doesn't have blue on it's old school large USB ports, though the device drivers claim they are usb 3, and it's odd that none are 3.0 in this day and age, so I dunno. At any rate, the cable I got is usb-c to usb-c, since the port was onboard. Working so far.

BTW, the only robust USB cables ever are the original bog standard rectangle ones, and the chunky mini ones on old portable devices. I've been through endless broken cables in the thousands of different USB standards they introduce every year to scam consumers, yet cables kicking around that are as old as USB itself work fine.