USB extension cable

[ACiDiC74]

Good day,

From my understanding it is suggested not to have the eDrumin device connected to a USB hub when you perform a firmware update, I was wondering if the same advice is given for a USB extension cable.

My drum set is not right next to my computer so I use an extension cable to connect the device to my PC, wondering if I would need to disconnect it from my drums and bring it over to my PC if I ever wanted to update it.

thank you

[Rob]

You're probably okay. To be honest I'm always updating my devices over hubs. I've seen some hubs do funny things though like randomly restarting connected devices, which can brick a device if it's in the middle of a firmware update, and that's why that warning is there.

[LooseSends]

Apart from that, would there be any noticeable lag or sync issues over a certain distance with USB extensions/hubs?

[MisterE]

Apart from that, would there be any noticeable lag or sync issues over a certain distance with USB extensions/hubs?

Absolutely no lag could ever be detected, since electronic signals travel at the speed of light. That said, with a significantly long cable, you could lose signal strength (and integrity), possibly, but the cable would need to be very long to begin to encounter those problems.

[dsteinschneider]

I've been updating my firmware through a powered USB 2.0 D-Link DUH-4 (nice little metal enclosure - bullet proof ) since the beginning (was early ED4 buyer). In my case everything is secured with zip ties and cable routing and the entire setup is plugged into a small UPS.

[monospace]

Apart from that, would there be any noticeable lag or sync issues over a certain distance with USB extensions/hubs?

Absolutely no lag could ever be detected, since electronic signals travel at the speed of light. That said, with a significantly long cable, you could lose signal strength (and integrity), possibly, but the cable would need to be very long to begin to encounter those problems.

I have definitely experienced data corruption with longer USB cables. In fact, I have posted many times about about the crashes I was getting, a year ago or so. The issue went away when I started using proper USB Active Repeater cables.
My laptop running SD3 is in a rack 12ft away from my kit.