On 7/11/08, William Couture <bcouture@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "USB extension cables (ie cables with a type A plug and Type A
> > recepticle) are not legal."
>
> Out of sheer curiosity, can anyone explain why a USB extension cable
> is "illegal" under the USB specifications?

If the eye pattern is on the specification range than the cable is
legal even it has 6m lenght. 6 cables of 1 meter lenght chained
together have higher chance to do not met the eye pattern level/shape
than one single cable 6 m long,

Vasile
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