On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 18:38 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
USB3 uses frequencies higher than USB2, so other devices can be affected by poor shielding at the ports, and kinked cables or excessively long leads connecting port to system board cause deterioration of the signals. Are both ports soldered neatly to the system board with short leads?
That reminds me of an old problem, regardless of which version of USB:
On many PCs the front panel USB sockets have a really poor quality flylead from the front panel to USB header pins on the motherboard. While this was often not a problem with the original slowest USB speeds, it sometimes was, and very unreliable with faster speeds.
And I wish USB stick manufacturers would stop making silly designs, I was asked to copy a file to one the other day, and it was too fat to fit into the socket with other things plugged in next to it.