Alright, so here's my situation: I have a nice gaming PC on the upper floor of my house, and I play my Quest on my main floor because I have a large open space there. For complicated reasons, the PC has to stay where it's at. When Oculus Link launches, I want to run a USB-C cable from my PC to my main floor where my play space is. The length I would need is probably around 30+ feet. Of course, I know Thunderbolt cables lose their bandwidth as you add length, so I'm thinking such a length is impractical or impossible. I'm trying to find the best way to do this and I want some feedback and ideas from people who may better know what they're doing. Here's what I'm thinking so far:
One idea is to buy Oculus's expensive fiber-optic cable coming out in November, but I'd need a bunch of them, and I'm thinking I could daisy-chain them with female-to-female adapters. As far as I know, fiber-optic works for the length I need, but that number of cables is going to get very expensive very quickly, so this is not my ideal solution. I've also looked for active/repeater cables, but those seem rather scarce for Thunderbolt 3, and almost non-existent.
I've looked at converting the signal to CAT6 but can't find an adapter that will do Thunderbolt 3. If anyone knows of one, please let me know. Also please let me know if Thunderbolt 3 speeds aren't possible over CAT6.
That kind of leads into my main question, which is, how much bandwidth is needed for Oculus Link? Will we not know until it's released? Based on what Oculus has said, it sounds like it's not running a straight video feed, like it's not using VR-Link that's coming on GPUs now (which sucks because my GPU supports VR-Link). It sounds like they're just sending a compressed signal to the headset, which would imply it doesn't use the full bandwidth of Thunderbolt 3, rather just a USB signal. If that's the case, I can just use a USB 3 port, convert it to CAT6, then convert it to USB-C at my play space. I just can't find any specs available about what bandwidth Oculus Link needs.
