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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by cbsmith on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @01:51AM (#11991733)
Yup. Bluetooth is kind of a nightmare for operability. I do think it could benefit from a bit more speed, in terms of opening up what it can do, but in terms of range.... if I need range, I'll use WiFi. What I need is for bluetooth to just work, dammit. I get that it is hard, but work on that before you work on anything else. Heck, I've found that using WiFi instead of bluetooth for a wireless hotspot/link is more reliable. How is that possible?
Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by BillinghamJ on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:56AM (#11992179)
It's aimed at low power IoT devices. Wi-Fi is (relatively) very power hungry compared with Bluetooth LE.
Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by cbsmith on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:31PM (#11996247)
Power helps with signal quality and bandwidth maybe, but simplicity and interoperability are all but completely orthogonal concerns.