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Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing

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hsbauauvhabzb ◴[12 Nov 25 05:48 UTC] No.45896750[source]▶
What’s the status of audio on modern Bluetooth? The only decent mic+audio configuration I’ve ever experienced is AirPods on apple devices, anything else sounds terrible when the microphone is activated.
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gbil ◴[12 Nov 25 06:29 UTC] No.45896969[source]▶
try to connect more than 2 devices simultaneously on your mac and "enjoy" the sound you get then. I had this problem with either intel or m* mac and it seems from a search on the Internet that it is widespread to the point that is the normal. Nowadays I only use dongles for mouse+keyboard+headset to avoid such issues, at least the usb-c ones are quite bearable on size you just need to be careful how you put your laptop in the bag, which way up.
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jeroenhd ◴[12 Nov 25 09:44 UTC] No.45898226[source]▶
That's just a Bluetooth capacity problem. Bluetooth isn't built for high throughput scenarios and "HD bidirectional audio" is considered high throughput in this case.

Same problem happens with a combination of earbuds and a smart watch, or headphones and a Bluetooth mouse, depending on the interference and chattiness of your devices.

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fransje26 ◴[12 Nov 25 09:58 UTC] No.45898309[source]▶
> Same problem happens with a combination of earbuds and a smart watch, or headphones and a Bluetooth mouse

Oh! TIL. I will have to keep using that port-hogging mouse dongle then..

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1. vel0city ◴[12 Nov 25 15:28 UTC] No.45901370[source]▶
It definitely varies a good bit with the hardware in question, and even how saturated 2.4GHz is in your current environment.

I currently have a bluetooth mouse, a bluetooth keyboard, and bluetooth headphones all on the same device and haven't had any issues. On a different computer with a different bluetooth chipset it would have issues with audio when I moved my mouse around a lot.