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Oculus Link only gives USB 2

AlexiTQ
Adventurer

I just got the 3m Fasgear cable off of Amazon and I'm having trouble getting link to work properly.

At first I got USB 3 with 1.9Gps of bandwidth. Now though, after several reboots of both headset and computer, I can only get USB 2 connectivity. I've tried on both the front panel and the motherboards IO-panel (both är USB 3.1 Gen 2 on a Gigabyte Aorus G7 motherboard).

I also, quite often, get "connection error". However, I'm able to enter link on the headset despite that.

I have also tried with the Oculus power cable and a USB-C to USB-A cable from OnePlus. Same results there.

Any idea what could be wrong? I'm about to return the headset as I only got it for PCVR, which clearly isn't working very well.

11 REPLIES 11

Thank you for your answer, I have already tried the Oculus Home beta (27) and the current one (26) but I think I found where the problem is. 

Oculus Quest 2 updated itself to firmware version 27 in the last days automatically. With version 26 it was working fine. 
I found out there is plenty of people with the exact same problem right after the update:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/ml29ca/my_oculus_link_usb_connection_speed_has_been/

Facebook seems to be aware of the issue but so far no news

KingBlackpixel
Expert Protege

Same problem for me... Just purchased 2 new computers and still have the problem with the "Official Occulus Link Cable". Other cables work just fine 

1 CPU: Alienware M17 R4: NVIDIA(R) GeForce RTX(TM) 3080 16GB GDDR6, 10th Generation Intel Core(TM) i9-10980HK (8-Core, 16MB Cache, up to 5.3GHz Max Turbo Frequency)
2nd CPU: Alienware Aurora R12: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDDR6X, 11th Gen Intel Core i9 11900KF (8-Core, 16MB Cache, 3.5GHz to 5.3GHz w/Thermal Velocity Boost)
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