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lxgryesterday at 8:09 AM1 replyview on HN

The reason is probably that anything faster than USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/s) and supporting power over 3A/60V will need to have an active marker, and to read that, you'll need something slightly more complex than a connection tester.

That said, these things do seem to exist at this point, as sibling comments have pointed out.

As an aside, it's a real shame devices with USB-C ports don't offer this out of the box. They need to be able to read the marker anyway for regular operation!


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_rstoday at 1:00 AM

Right? It would be great if I could plug a USB-C cable into 2 ports on my Mac and it could figure out what the cable is capable of