Mowsil USB 3.1 Type A to USB C AOC Cable, High Speed Data & Charging, 5 Meter, Black
Mowsil
- 10Gbps high-speed data transfer
- Active Optical (AOC) – no signal loss
- Long distance: 5m
- Plug & play – no drivers needed
- Ideal for AV & workstation setups
Warranty: 1 Year — effortless warranty claims with UK-wide coverage. Learn more
Key specifications
- Length
- 5 m
- Cable type
- USB Cables
Details
- Shipping Weight
- 0.20 Kg
- Shipping Dimensions
- 15.00 cm x 18.00 cm x 3.00 cm
4.58 reviews
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Alfie G. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Full drive speed at five metres
Cons
Rubs shiny where it crosses the monitor arm
Comment
Bought to reach an external SSD that sits on a shelf above the desk, purely so the cable would stop dangling across the monitor arm. Full speed on big transfers, no throttling, no warm plug at either end. A year of daily use and the only mark on it is where the monitor arm rubs. What I did not expect is how light it is: five metres of it weighs less than the one metre lead that came with the drive, so it hangs without pulling the plug sideways.
George W. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
Long and still full speed
Cons
Pricey for a USB lead
Comment
Solved a headset run that no ordinary lead would reach!
Jack H. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Held a classroom camera where three normal leads failed
Comment
This lives between a document camera at the front of a classroom and the teacher's machine at the side, which is a run that has eaten three ordinary USB leads before it. Ordinary cable at five metres is out of spec and behaves like it: the camera drops out mid-lesson, or comes up at a lower resolution, or simply is not there when the machine wakes. Since this went in there has been none of that. Full resolution, no dropouts, and it comes back after a sleep without anybody unplugging anything. Two things to know. It is directional and the ends are labelled in tiny print, so mark them yourself before you cable-tie it down. And the C end has no power delivery to speak of, so it will run a camera or a drive but it is not going to charge a laptop. Neither of those is a fault, just a surprise if you assume otherwise.
Jack N. Used for: 6–12 months
Cons
Carries data but next to no power
Comment
Worth being clear about what this is not, because I nearly bought it for the wrong job. It is a data cable with an optical core, so it carries the signal beautifully over five metres but it passes almost no power. My VR headset would see it and then complain about power, and I had to add a separate feed to make that work at all. For the camera it now lives on, it is perfect. Ten months of a webcam at the far end of a studio and it has never once dropped mid-recording. Just do not read USB 3.1 Type C and assume it charges things.
Oliver D. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
Keeps proper 3.1 speed where every copper lead dropped back
Comment
The job was a capture card in a cupboard and a camera on a tripod across the room, and every five metre lead I tried before this either ran at USB 2 speeds or fell over as soon as the camera started sending 60 frames. Eight months on, this one has been solid. The stream comes up at the resolution it should, no frame drops, and the machine sees it as a proper 3.1 device rather than dropping back. Four stars rather than five only because the connector shells are plain moulded plastic with no locking of any kind, and at this length a knock at the far end will pull it out.
Willow L. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
No hub in the middle and no dropouts
Comment
Five metres of USB 3 that actually holds full speed to a camera
Florence S. Used for: 6–12 months
Cons
Too slippery to stay in a cable clip
Comment
No complaints about how it performs, only about how it lives. The jacket is thin and slippery, which is lovely for threading through a desk grommet and horrible for staying put: it slides out of every clip I own and ends up on the floor. A bit of hook and loop tape sorted it. Signal wise it has been perfect since the day it went in.
Harry F. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Five metres without a powered hub
Cons
Only goes one way round, so check the ends first
Comment
Needed to get a PTZ camera at the back of a hall onto a laptop at the front, and a normal USB lead simply will not go that far. This one does it on its own with no powered hub bodged into the middle, and the software saw it instantly!
