• Runcible [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    too many places where bluetooth just straight up doesn’t work

    Can you explain this to me?

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Bluetooth does better in more enclosed places iirc. Wide open areas bluetooth will have trouble. not OP but i've gone for walks with bt headphones and I walk from a more enclosed area into a wide open one and the audio starts cutting for no reason.

      bluetooth is weird. It can barely pass through a person too so it can be shit in a pocket.

      • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        To avoid paying the huge fees it would take to reserve a decent radio channel for Bluetooth, they got it approved by the FCC by making it insanely weak, in a band that doesn't penetrate things very well. To make it usable despite the tiny power limits and awful frequency band, they added a fuckton of error correction and set their standards for quality extremely low.

        Bluetooth was never meant for anything better than phone call level audio quality, the fact you can get any audio that doesn't sound like an AM radio station through it is amazing. Any tiny amount of interference in that band makes Bluetooth useless. Literally, just being in a room with a bunch of milkcrate Bitcoin miners will probably jam it.