was only used to connect a printer or a USB key. I may be misreading the characteristic provided it is not the seller can be written .to be able to plug a web cam that distance it was fake you a usb extension cable with repeater or more familiarly call and take an active 3.0 are backward compatible 2.0 and 1.1 they have less signal loss that distance (which is what I did and now it works nickel hd)