by photoGrant » Sat Apr 14, 2018 6:24 pm
See if your back is set to draw power from the USB connection (to charge the battery).
I easily and often run ~20ft without secret sauce batteries and shit without an issue.
Your device has a mA limit per port, and if it's a laptop and without AC power, this limit can be the make or break between file delivery and hanging.
Step 1) Disconnect all your shit from your ports
Step 2) Disable any power sucking settings that are in the back or body
Step 3) Test the shortest cable scenario for success
Step 4) Add your extension and see if you're still in the shit.
Then you can go from there. If you aren't even having success by Step 3... I'd suggest looking at the batteries powering the back.
If you're living in the same session that you had the hanging issue with, sometimes this can corrupt in strange ways and make a 'reconnection' impossible. Test a new session with your new tether scenario.
Worst case scenario you can drop in a USB2.0 repeater and despite being slower, will carry you when USB 3 cannot.