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Canon R5 - major tethering problems - need urgent help

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rstebler New Member • Posts: 2
Re: Canon R5 - major tethering problems - need urgent help

I can con confirm that over the last two days in 3 photo bays that switching to our older Type A USB 3.0 active extension cables has fixed the tethering issues.  We use the cheap monoprice Type A extensions as they are the same cable as tether tools.  Side note - don't ever believe the Tether Tools hype on their cables.  They are just rebranded cables that are 1/5th the price.

What really bugs me about this solution is that it uses 5Gb/s cables vs what's supposed to be 10Gb/s even though I don't really believe that the Type C tethering cables were actually providing 10Gb/s connections.  I just ordered some USB 3.1 Gen 2 10Gb/s Type A optical cables to test out actual time differences of images loading into Capture One from the Canon R5 and the Fuji GFX100s. Next will be testing Type A USB 3.0 5gb/s cables vs Type A USB 3.1 Gen 2 optical 10Gb/s cables vs Type C Usb 3.1 10Gb/s cables on a Mac Studio.  The type C issues are so disappointing when I was sold the magic of the 1 connector to rule them all and it has been a disaster with +15ft cables. Not sure if it's an issue with the R5's handling of USB C 3.1 or the cable manufacturers?

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