[Top-posting since I'm a newbie]

A followup to this one: I have since blown another... Oh I posted
that November? Make that 2 more USB adaptors, A TP-Link mini (not
micro), and another Netgear AC600.

I can't say FOR SURE the AC600 was actually defunct. It was in use
on another computer for over a year and had just been recently
promoted to my computer when it started to hicup and burp, so I went
to check its vital signs and it literally THREW itself onto a rubber
mallet and spontaneously exploded into smithereens. A mouse did that
recently, too. That's some weird shit, eh?

On the brighter side, I got a EDUP-LOVE AC1900 with the flappy
dohicky beam-forming thing, just like the Netgear 6120 that I blew
up within 4 hours at more than twice the price. And the EDUP LOVE
has worked for almost 8 weeks now without a fart. It gets 50% better
throughput than anything less I've mentioned other than the 24-hour
and Kaput Netgear 6120 (120mb up/down). I do not have a
beam-forming router or mesh, just the shitty original Google Fiber
router.

And I'm not at all convinced any of the USB extension cables I used
had anything to do with my blowing up USB adaptors. I blew them all
up indiscriminately of any USB2/USB3 port or extension cable. I'm
VERY thorough.

So... Three thumbs up for this (knocking on wood):

https://i.postimg.cc/d1fcKRjr/EDUP-LOVE.jpg

https://www.szedup.com/product-item/edup-1900mbps-realtek8814au-wifi-adapter-usb-network-card-ep-ac1675/

Yes, I'm a shill.

-sw

2020 07:47:24 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:

> Both a NetGear 6120 and two TPlink A600 (T2U+) have died after I
> connect them to USB extension cords.
>
> The 6120 died within 6 hours afedtr I used it for a day without the
> entension cords. It kept disconnecting from W10 and needed adapter
> resets.
>
> The TPlinks lasted almost a week, then started crapping out the same
> way.
>
> The extension cords are 6 foot + 12 foot, stapled across windowsills
> and floorboards with a "U" staple gun and lead out of the man cave
> into the the loft and provide 2X the speeds of just plugging them
> into the USB ports on the mini-tower case.
>
> When the adapters start to fail on the extension cords, they now no
> longer work plugged into the case either. Well, they do, but keep
> disconnecting just like they do on teh extensions. 3 of them never
> started disconnecting UNTIL I used them in the extension cords. Then
> they don't work on either he extension or the case ports.
>
> I've blown up 2 TPLink T2U+ and possibly a Netgear 6120 (but the
> 6120 has terrible reviews saying the same problem). The only thing
> that has survived the extension cords are the NetGear 6100's (one I
> blew up myself <clapping>, the other has persevered). The T2U+ and
> Netgear 6120 all generated a bunch of heat at the farthest point
> female connector. It didn't matter which female connector it was -
> the 6-footer or the 12 footer. But the 6100 generate no heat there
> and work fine.
>
> I really liked the Netgear 6120 for the 24 hours or so that it
> worked - I got 240Mbps (190 without the extension cords) which is
> what I get right next to router. Otherwise I get 110-120 with the
> Netgear 6100's and T2U+ and extension cords, and 60 while plugged
> into the case.
>
> Three USB thumb drives work on the extension cords, one of them
> shows a drive is connected in Windows 10, but when you look at the
> drive in Explorer, says "No device connected" (but it assigned it a
> drive letter in W10).
>
> Yeah, the cables are old 2.0 and spent 6-10 years as part of "The
> Ball" (that big box of cables that when you pick one, you pick 30-40
> pounds worth of cables, that all started with 2 8-foot cheap speaker
> cords 40 years ago). But they both work independently but not
> connected together in either order. They're sehileded and there no
> length issue according to specs(?)
>
> So WTF?
>
> -sw