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Re:USB 4 version 2 promises 80 Gbps speeds over existing cables by psurge on Thursday September 01, 2022 @07:53PM (#32684924)
And successfully scaling different peaks requires using different kinds of safety rope. Helpfully, the different ropes all look exactly the same.
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Re:USB 4 version 2 promises 80 Gbps speeds over existing cables by thrown_22 on Thursday September 01, 2022 @08:34PM (#32685225)
Sounds like we should add some type of visual guide to help people realize which ropes to use.

Maybe make their physical shapes different enough so that you can't connect things which fail catastrophically together?

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Re:USB 4 version 2 promises 80 Gbps speeds over existing cables by nine_k on Friday September 02, 2022 @12:17AM (#32686526)
The thing is that they never fail catastrophically; t worst you get USB 2.0 level of interoperability.

But if you wan these top Mbps or W, or want 60 Hz 4k video, you may find out that not everything works with everything else, and proper cables play a crucial role, while being visually not distinctive at all.

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