Re:Wireless Is a Trap
by noble_pleb on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:44AM
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I've found that sometimes fiddling with some wireless settings like operation band, channel, tx power, WMM, etc. helps, provided you know what you are doing. Especially so if you're in an overcrowded wifi zone or in a poor reception area.
>2.4GHz sucks, use Bluetooth when possible.
Huh? Bluetooth is 2.4GHz.
I'm sorry for not being clear on this but I'm not sure how to name it in English. I was referring to those wireless devices with a small USB receiver.
In the professional wireless development space, we call those "generic ISM band crap".
Bluetooth is way worse than good custom protocol dongles (e.g. Logitech "unifying receiver")
Re:Wireless Is a Trap
by solarkraft on Sunday June 21, 2020 @08:18AM
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You're correct, it's just that vendors call their proprietary non-bluetooth protocols that.
Here are some tips I collected along the way:
1. 2.4GHz sucks, use Bluetooth when possible. But Bluetooth sucks, too.
2. You want to have fewer Bluetooth devices when possible, reduce the number of simultaneous connections. For example, I only use my Bluetooth mouse for gaming, and trackpad for the rest, so I would disconnect mouse when I'm not playing video games.
3. You want to use some categories of Bluetooth devices first. For example, Bluetooth keyboards usually have great experiences so you may want to make your keyboard wireless first. Bluetooth mice and trackpads are Okayish, but not as great. Bluetooth headphones and speakers are usually bad. If you really want to use Bluetooth for Audio, sometimes devices from the same company may have better connections: Beats Studio seems to have a much better connection than Sennheiser and B&O on Mac.
After all, I still love the idea of wireless because it is nice on paper. It is mostly the de facto protocols and implementations that are terrible.