Dear Anker:
Please consider making active thunderbolt 3 cables. I am not alone in the frustration of all the ridiculously short passive cables on the market.
Especially for direct connections from laptop to monitor or from laptop to eGPU a longer cable would help out a lot!
Please consider it. I think there is a market for it now that everyone is hopping on the thunderbolt train.
It would be great for them to do it
If I am not mistaken, once you hit the 6ft mark in length for cables, then you start sacrificing data transfer speeds
Well for passive copper cables you start to lose speed as of about 1.6 - 2 feet. For active copper cables the maximum length is around 6.6 feet.
They are however working on optical thunderbolt 3 cables that can be insanely long. I think the leading company for this is Corning.
They’ve brought out optical cables for both thunderbolt and thunderbolt 2 and are working on thunderbolt 3.