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Ah yes, the Logitech fiasco. It is a great story of how several electrical engineers designing separately, and not understanding software impacts, could make a sub-optimal result.

The big takeaway is that at 5GHz signals often "leap off the conductors" at the slightest provocation. And clock skewing and other attempts at breaking data/signal correlation have limited ability to counter this.

For a long time I had a USB 2.0 cable extender with an RF choke on it, that I would connect to USB 3.x hubs and then plug the Logitech transceiver into that.




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