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Re:Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable? by jeroen94704 on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @11:02AM (#14753103)
> Watching two radios frequency hop, and negotiate to avoid a > congested wifi channel was unreal.

Exactly. As I said in another comment, we did a test in a very busy office space and didn't loose a single bit of data @ several 100kbit/s over a week transmitting continously. We could see it hopping on the sniffer.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth so unreliable? by bjt2n3904 on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @11:24AM (#14753331)
True, as long as both transceivers are 100% to spec. The problem is, it's a VERY large and complicated spec, and it's easy to make one little slip and have to completely renegotiate the connection.
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