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Re:Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard by _wmd on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @06:24AM (#17072909)
We're talking about a max 72KiB/sec connection (AptX HD) at one meter range between 2 peers, parent comment refers to flash mob gaming on a bus. A modern London bus seats 62 over a 11.23x2.52x4.39m area surrounded by numerous metallic partitions in a continuously changing RF environment (driving through a city).

Assuming audio between 2 peers at 1 meter was somehow a solved problem (per above it's not), and collision avoidance was a non-issue (problem worsens exponentially with additional peers), that's 1.16KB/sec in some idealized non-existent reality of bandwidth to run a compelling game for 62 people. Perhaps parent comment refers to a flash mob game of Chess.

Assuming Bluetooth only reliably fails between two peers 1% of the time (oh, but to dream), that's a 99%^62 = 5.36% chance of a bus full of people successfully joining a single mesh.

Silliness is in the eye of the beholder!

Re:Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard by aembleton on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:04AM (#17073066)
99%^62 = 53.6%

Out by an order of magnitude but your point still stands.

Re:Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard by andruby on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:40AM (#17073205)
What do you mean? 0.99^62=0.53626
Re:Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard by IanCal on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @08:25AM (#17073404)
Yes, which is 53.6%, not 5.36%.
Re:Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard by verbify on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @10:29AM (#17074133)
Not to mention AptX HD is a proprietary audio codec. Many (most?) phones don't support it.