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This is specific to USB-C and unshielded cabling. It's the same issue that Louis Rossman tried to blame on the new MacBooks until his Dell laptop started doing

This is specific to USB-C and unshielded cabling. It's the same issue that Louis Rossman tried to blame on the new MacBooks until his Dell laptop started doing the same thing with the adapter. Especially for powered USB devices, unshielded cables will cause all kinds of interference. Make sure that whatever adapters you're getting are properly shielded and/or switch completed to USB-C to avoid these situations.

sdan 7y ago
Interesting. Maybe Apple's not to blame then! Time to wrap my dongles around in aluminum foil once again! Also side note: Louis Rossman is a super funny guy (biking around NY to find a better place is both hilarious and fun to watch)
- tomduncalf 7y ago
  Yeah, this is not an Apple specific problem if it's the same I experienced: https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/docs/io/universal-serial-bus/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.html https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/docs/io/u... Using a 5ghz wifi network, if possible, should fix it
  - dpkonofa 7y ago
    That is one way to fix it too, if you don't want to have to re-buy shielded cables.
  - RealWorldPolice 7y ago
    Thank you for explaining why my crappy thumb drives no longer interfere with my wifi!
- dpkonofa 7y ago
  I'm not a fan of his. Although I think he's super-smart and one of the few people I would actually trust to repair my devices on a component level, I really hate his click-bait videos when they're anti-Apple and/or pro-Right-to-Repair and he intentionally omits or mischaracterizes things to make the discussion more sensational. This USB shielding issue is one of those times. He spent almost an hour bitching about how Apple had skimped out on the new Touch Bar MacBooks and how they couldn't even get basic WiFi working and then, when it was pointed out that it was likely due to his cables and it happened in another video, he completely ignored it and never corrected the initial video to explain that it had nothing to do with the MacBook. His only admission ever has been on a buried comment in a Reddit post where a user flat-out asked him to confirm the case. His whole assessment of Apple with regard to right-to-repair is also really disingenuous and he constantly brings up PC Kompaniet (do a Google search if you're not familiar) as an example of Apple being hard on the little guy without mentioning that "the little guy" was actually doing exactly what Apple accused them of but stopped doing it when it went to court and the court decided to dismiss the case on the grounds that the offending behavior had been terminated. Since that other portion didn't fit his narrative and would no longer support his stance that Apple is the big, bad corporate enemy of small repair shops, he just ignores it. He's funny but I would take everything he says with a grain of salt. He's a YouTube personality, after all.
  - sdan 7y ago
    Would recommend anyone else who's a fan to take this grain of salt as well. I take him superficially most of the time since clearly he has a bias against Apple.
  - RealWorldPolice 7y ago
    SeizedBatteryGate turned me off of Louis Rossman for life: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossmann_admits_to_using_parts_from_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossman... I liked the guy before he became a professional YouTuber who pretends to not be one.

sdan 7y ago

Interesting. Maybe Apple's not to blame then! Time to wrap my dongles around in aluminum foil once again! Also side note: Louis Rossman is a super funny guy (biking around NY to find a better place is both hilarious and fun to watch)

tomduncalf 7y ago
Yeah, this is not an Apple specific problem if it's the same I experienced: https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/docs/io/universal-serial-bus/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.html https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/products/docs/io/u... Using a 5ghz wifi network, if possible, should fix it
- dpkonofa 7y ago
  That is one way to fix it too, if you don't want to have to re-buy shielded cables.
- RealWorldPolice 7y ago
  Thank you for explaining why my crappy thumb drives no longer interfere with my wifi!
dpkonofa 7y ago
I'm not a fan of his. Although I think he's super-smart and one of the few people I would actually trust to repair my devices on a component level, I really hate his click-bait videos when they're anti-Apple and/or pro-Right-to-Repair and he intentionally omits or mischaracterizes things to make the discussion more sensational. This USB shielding issue is one of those times. He spent almost an hour bitching about how Apple had skimped out on the new Touch Bar MacBooks and how they couldn't even get basic WiFi working and then, when it was pointed out that it was likely due to his cables and it happened in another video, he completely ignored it and never corrected the initial video to explain that it had nothing to do with the MacBook. His only admission ever has been on a buried comment in a Reddit post where a user flat-out asked him to confirm the case. His whole assessment of Apple with regard to right-to-repair is also really disingenuous and he constantly brings up PC Kompaniet (do a Google search if you're not familiar) as an example of Apple being hard on the little guy without mentioning that "the little guy" was actually doing exactly what Apple accused them of but stopped doing it when it went to court and the court decided to dismiss the case on the grounds that the offending behavior had been terminated. Since that other portion didn't fit his narrative and would no longer support his stance that Apple is the big, bad corporate enemy of small repair shops, he just ignores it. He's funny but I would take everything he says with a grain of salt. He's a YouTube personality, after all.
- sdan 7y ago
  Would recommend anyone else who's a fan to take this grain of salt as well. I take him superficially most of the time since clearly he has a bias against Apple.
- RealWorldPolice 7y ago
  SeizedBatteryGate turned me off of Louis Rossman for life: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossmann_admits_to_using_parts_from_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9pow06/louis_rossman... I liked the guy before he became a professional YouTuber who pretends to not be one.