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Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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Re: Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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Headphones are the big benefactor here, for me at least. I can walk to the kitchen with my wireless headphones.

I've found that microwave interferes very strongly with Bluetooth headphones

Bluetooth is using the very same microwaves (much like wifi), so yes.

Re: Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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What does bluetooth not require support for multiple simultaneous devices. Have more than one device that won't let you connect more than one at a time.

In theory, the Bluetooth protocol supports up to 7 devices connected simultaneously as slaves to one master device. However in practice, hardware support may be less than this.

Re: Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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If it were anyone else this would be flagged as blogspam. Sometimes he can bring insight, but these Tweet-like posts don't add anything to the conversation.

who is he?

John Gruber is an Apple fanboy who somehow makes a lot of money from his blog. And invented Markdown formatting.

Re: Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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I don't need more range or more speed. I need it to reliably connect and stay connected while devices are well within range of each other, and stop breaking every time I upgrade anything. Unfortunately that would require making it less complex, which is about as likely as a broken egg spontaneously reassembling.

I have a Nexus 6p, which I connect to my car via Bluetooth for music and navigation.

The dropped audio, stutters, and need to reconnect are driving me crazy. I've now switched back to a generic audio cable.

Bluetooth reliability really is dire, the phone is within 10m of wherever the car transceiver is and in the designed hotspot too (inside the car) and it still fails.

Re: Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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I'm currently wearing a heart monitoring device that communicates over Bluetooth and would greatly benefit from greater range. Which is to say, there's certainly a market for folks needing greater range.

What something like a heart monitor would need above anything else is reliability.

A monitor is not a life critical device, unless another critical device depends on the monitor's telemetry. Bluetooth is perfectly adequate in this case.

Re: Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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I don't need more range or more speed. I need it to reliably connect and stay connected while devices are well within range of each other, and stop breaking every time I upgrade anything. Unfortunately that would require making it less complex, which is about as likely as a broken egg spontaneously reassembling.

I'd just like to have paired devices actually automatically reconnect without having to unpair and repair.

The only things that seems to do this reliably are PS4 controllers with my PC.

Re: Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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I don't need more range or more speed. I need it to reliably connect and stay connected while devices are well within range of each other, and stop breaking every time I upgrade anything. Unfortunately that would require making it less complex, which is about as likely as a broken egg spontaneously reassembling.

I have a Nexus 6p, which I connect to my car via Bluetooth for music and navigation. The dropped audio, stutters, and need to reconnect are driving me crazy. I've now switched back to a generic audio cable. Bluetooth reliability really is dire, the phone is within 10m of wherever the car transceiver is and in the designed hotspot too (inside the car) and it still fails.

That problem seems to be specific to Android. I had Samsung ATIV S, which did not have this problem at all (Win Phone). However both S3 and Nexus 6 have it. The later I bought in part to make it go away at least partially:(

Re: Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

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As a matter of fact "more range" is quite the opposite of what I want from Bluetooth. Do I really need to have 5000 keyboards within range of my computer at the office, instead of the 100 I already have? I definitely do not.

Headphones are the big benefactor here, for me at least. I can walk to the kitchen with my wireless headphones.

Agree, I look forward to the day I can leave my iPhone in a gym locker and work out with just headphones
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