I just went to charge my kitchen scale and it wouldn’t work until I dug out a USB-A -> C cable and plugged it into my desktop…
It just reminded me of how many devices like that I have. This scale, my wife’s sound torc, some car jumperstarters, and I think a one or two more…
I assume it’s because they just slap a usbc port on a dumb 5v circuit that doesn’t have a power negotiation controller. So the cable and the charger cant figure out the power needs of the device are and just never send any.
Agreed. Learned this the hard way with my portable 4g router. It’s the pickiest gadget I own with cord and plug selection and it left me hanging when I really needed it and I don’t carry an A to C cord often. I wish I could find a good alternative to the Netgear Nighthawk M1100
Maybe this? : https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e750/
I haven’t tried this out but I have another one of their travel routers and found it pretty good overall
I have a few routers by them, but not this one. That’s really cool for in the city but I worry about reception. The main reason I got the nighthawk was to see if I could log into work from a hot spring with spotty reception. It has antenna ports hidden under the little rubber feet and it does help the range a lot. Still haven’t tried the hot spring, but I tried it at a family member in the country’s house where the reception is weak and it got me a usable signal. Thanks for sharing. I’ll look into glinet a bit more.