Thrustmaster warthog+ USB extention/hub

[Ktulu2]

I'm building a chair to have my hotas placed like in a real plane, and, as the warthog is super expensive, I do not want to dammage its wires. So I decided to link the hotas to my pc by a usb extension or a usb hub. The thing is that I don't know if these extensions could degrade gameplay (by latency or anything else) or could dammage the commands. Hope you can explain to me wether i'm making stuff up or I am about to blow up my warthog

 

Thank you

[cichlidfan]

Buy a decent POWERED hub and everything will be just fine. Mine has been running through a hub for over 3 years with no issues. Regarding latency, USB is probably faster than your controller would ever need it to be.

[Ktulu2]

What do you mean by a decent powered hub?

[cichlidfan]

A known brand, good reviews. There are lots of them out there and most of them will work just fine. Just don't buy the cheapest one you see. You definitely want a powered hub so that your motherboard is not providing power to everything plugged into the hub, through one port on the motherboard.

[Ktulu2]

Thank you

Can I also get your opinion on usb extensions, as It'd fit my plan better.

how about something like this : http://addison-electronique.com/catalog/product/view/id/17641/s/extension-actif-usb-2-0-a-male-a-a-femelle-5m/

or this :

http://addison-electronique.com/catalog/product/view/id/16710/s/10ft-usb-2-0-extension-cable-a-male-to-b-male/

would those cause a latency problem?

[cichlidfan]

I have extensions in use as well. I don't recall the USB limits off of the top of my head, but as long as you don't exceed the maximum length.

[Ktulu2]

All right, thanks you very much, you have been very usefull!

[weeb]

If this helps:

 

USB Older style 1.x and (most common USB 2.x) use twisted pair connection, (like direct cable connection between 2 pc's without router or hub), it's complicated but simply put you can use usb cable 1.x max 5 metres with devices that operate at 12MBits/s or 3m at 1.5 MBits/s.

 

Usb2 max 5 metres at 480MBit/s purely because of ping response time, if round-trip delay of signal is too long the host considers the signal is lost.

 

Usb3 max 3 metres.

 

I have used cables longer than specified regulations without degradation so in answer to your question, you wont damage anything trying longer cables as the signal may be degraded, the hub negates this problem, but you might hit the ping response time wall and something stops working.

 

The above is simplified ( I wont go into wiring regulations and twisted pair explanation as the hub switches this around, a good powered hub is the way to go, google will suffice).

Edited December 28, 2014 by weeb

[carkifelek]

Ktulu2, your HOTAS can actually work with just your computer’s PSU as well depending on the available power of the PSU and the power requirement of your complete system. Check the requirements of your HOTAS, PSU and complete computer system before you decide to buy a power hub. This will also give an idea of what sort of a power hub you want since the new power hub should be able to individually power up your HOTAS.

[Ktulu2]

I bought usb extensions instead, it was more practical, but thanks anyway.