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ck2 4 hours ago

Has 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?

username_here 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

supertrope 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even licensed wireless stops functioning. All circuits are busy.