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Not strictly related but I just bought a USB4 USB-C cable which is rated at 40 Gbps. I still can't really believe it. (I still remember saving to cassette tape)

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I use one of these for two 4k monitors, sound, ethernet, mouse, webcam, AND charging. It's amazing having one cable to plug in when I work from my desk. Unfortunately requires one of those $400 docks though.

Work bought me a VisionTek hub. I wanted the 1 cable life - unfortunately, it only does monitors via DisplayLink, aka compressed & streamed to & from my desk. It's noticeably fuzzy.

So now it's 2 cables: 1 from the hub, 1 from the monitor. Both USB-C.

WTF guys?

My Apple monitor from 2009 just worked with 1 cable (no power, but still).

Have you tried to benchmark it at all?

Do you doubt that they work? Your can demonstrate it to yourself pretty easily with 2 computers and iperf.

I just have the cable. I dont have a computer nor a device that can transfer that quickly. Wont be long though! Actually looked like those 6k monitors @60Hz will fill the pipe.

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