alt Hacker NewsHas anyone ever studied what happens with Bluetooth contention where thousands of people are gathered in a small space?
Like a marathon mass-start with 10,000 sometimes 20,000 or more people
How does bluetooth handle that? Or it doesn't?
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supertrope • yesterday at 7:34 PM
Even licensed wireless stops functioning. All circuits are busy.
In my experience, just fine. I recently ran a large (~30k) marathon and my AirPods and watch never glitched once, streaming the whole time including in the packed start corrals. I had the same thought about RF contention, but Bluetooth didn't seem to care.