Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
by ge96 on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:37PM
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I noticed this thing with my old acer transformer 2-in-1 laptop if you enable bluetooth for audio streaming and have wifi running it slows to a crawl (watching youtube for example) actually won't buffer. I'm wondering if the bluetooth/wifi is on the same chip and can't run simultaneously.
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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
by ori_b on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:50PM
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> I'm wondering if the bluetooth/wifi is on the same chip and can't run simultaneously.
Worse, they're close to the same frequency band, and can interfere with each other. Wifi channel 14 is 2.484 ghz. Bluetooth is 2.4835 ghz.
Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
by Dylan16807 on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:14PM
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Not just 'close to'. The wifi channels are very fat, and every channel extends .01GHz in either direction from its center. But more importantly bluetooth uses the exact same 2.40-2.48 range. It tries to minimize interference by frequency-hopping, but it's guaranteed to overlap 2.4GHz wifi.
Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
by ge96 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:12AM
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So it's probably okay to use for a wireless mouse/keyboard but continuous sound output is a no go? Just seems like a bad design I mean the computer doesn't even have an ethernet port so to have wifi + bluetooth as a suggested combo/function and it doesn't work... haha