This one has been bothering me for a while but due to illness I am just getting around to writing a review. I purchased this in January of this year because I needed a long usb cord to connect to my printer. I was able to plug it in to ONE of my Gateway pc usb ports just fine and it worked well. The printer is pnp and when my wife tried to plug it into her apple it did not fit any of her usb ports. The same thing for my son and his Lenova laptop. No worries, I simply started using a slightly shorter cord that I had on hand (that didn't quite meet my needs, but worked). I finally troubleshot the issue and found that the one usb port on my Gateway was the ONLY one that it would successfully plug in to. The other three USB ports on my computer would not accept it. After careful comparison to other usb cables I finally determined that the usb cable connector is out of specification and the one port on my computer that I initially plugged it into was just lucky/fortunate. I've since checked this with usb ports on two other computers with the same results.
This one has been bothering me for a while but due to illness I am just getting around to writing a review. I purchased this in January of this year because I needed a long usb cord to connect to my printer. I was able to plug it in to ONE of my Gateway pc usb ports just fine and it worked well. The printer is pnp and when my wife tried to plug it into her apple it did not fit any of her usb ports. The same thing for my son and his Lenova laptop. No worries, I simply started using a slightly shorter cord that I had on hand (that didn't quite meet my needs, but worked). I finally troubleshot the issue and found that the one usb port on my Gateway was the ONLY one that it would successfully plug in to. The other three USB ports on my computer would not accept it. After careful comparison to other usb cables I finally determined that the usb cable connector is out of specification and the one port on my computer that I initially plugged it into was just lucky/fortunate. I've since checked this with usb ports on two other computers with the same results.