Any recommended "after market" Link cable for Rift 2?

Gimpymoo · 22 Dec 2021 at 01:50

If anyone can save me a few quid I would be grateful as need two of them.

if the OEM one is the better one then so be it.

Thanks.

Gimpymoo · 22 Dec 2021 at 20:09

2Thumbs said:
I've recently bought a 'Basesailor' branded cable for my Quest 2. It's the one with the inline signal booster. No idea what difference that makes but the speed test shows 2.8Gbps connected directly to my 2080ti which I'm more than happy with and it was only £18. The general quality of it seems very good too.

Thank you.

Ordered two of the USB to USB-C variant.

Gimpymoo · 26 Dec 2021 at 19:15

Well, seems like I under estimated the GPU grunt needed for PCVR

Not buying a GPU at current prices so the cables will stay in their box for the foreseeable future - lol

Vega 56 which is not a "slouch" but PCVR is patchy at best even on none AAA stuff.

Gimpymoo · 26 Dec 2021 at 21:54

melmac said:
The problem isn't just GPU grunt, AMD GPU's have terrible H.264 encoders. They don't work well with Link cable or Airlink because they default to H.264. You will have a much better experience if you get Virtual Desktop. You can choose to use the HEVC encoder, which is much faster for AMD GPU's. It's also easier to setup lower resolutions.

It's not free though. But, you could try it out in the two hour return window and see does it work for you.

I would need to get a 5Ghz access point then I assume?

Gimpymoo · 27 Dec 2021 at 14:58

melmac said:
Ah, yes, you would need a decent 5Ghz router. I presumed you would have one, even a basic ISP from an ISP. Sorry about that. Guess that makes it too much money to take a chance on.

No need to be sorry, it is me running old kit.

My Virgin hub runs in modem mode.

I run ethernet around the house via a PfSense firewall appliance with a few 2.4Ghz access points and only use wifi for phones and printer so 2.4Ghz is fine for that purpose.

Will do no harm to upgrade so will have a look.