Monoprice 108612 10ft USB 2.0 A Male to A Male Cable White

The Monoprice 108612 is a 10-foot USB 2.0 A Male to A Male cable built to a straightforward specification: 28AWG data conductors, 24AWG power conductors, gold-plated USB-A connectors at both ends, and a white PVC jacket. Those wire gauges matter — 24AWG power lines maintain USB 2.0's 500mA current delivery over a 10-foot span, and 28AWG data lines hold signal integrity well within the USB 2.0 maximum 5-meter cable length specification. The gold plating at the contact points addresses the one long-term failure mode of budget USB cables: oxidation on the connector faces that increases contact resistance and causes intermittent connections over time. At USB 2.0's 480Mbps ceiling, this cable will not be your throughput bottleneck — the protocol is the limit.

The primary use case for USB-A male to USB-A male cables is narrower than most USB cables: upstream connections on certain USB hubs, data transfer between dual-host KVM devices, and some specialized charging docks require this symmetrical format. It is not a universal cable and will not fit standard printer, hard drive, or device charging ports. Within its intended application, the 10-foot length solves the real practical problem of reaching a second device positioned more than an arm's reach from the source — across a desktop, between rack-mounted devices, or from a tower to a hub on a shelf above. Monoprice's value proposition here is exactly what it is on every cable: manufacturer-grade construction at commodity pricing, without the premium margin of retail-branded alternatives.