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you know what really burns my popcorn bluetooth i mean sure it's convenient

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and those little wireless speakers are super handy but i've got a lot of

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problems with bluetooth and now

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you're gonna hear about them first off guess which frequency band bluetooth

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uses surely it couldn't be 2.4 gigahertz

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right you know the same one that every wi-fi router blasts out a signal on

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making the band more clogged than a toilet at chipotle oh wait yeah that's

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exactly what frequency it uses so from the get-go your little bluetooth devices

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are already competing with tons of other wireless traffic which can reduce your

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effective range but hey i'm just getting started why exactly is bluetooth so

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range limited in the first place look i know that whenever you're using

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something wireless there's a trade-off between range and battery life since

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blasting a signal farther away sucks down more power but what good is long

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battery life if i'm constantly having to worry if i'm too far away from my

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bluetooth speaker i mean sure sometimes it's not a big deal but i

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don't want the signal to be so anemic that it just drops out if i take my

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phone into the other room because a few sheets of drywall are in the way come on

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oh and while we're talking about drop-offs let's move on to another

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common source of frustration pairing issues you'd think they could have made

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this simple like wi-fi your gadget sees another gadget like your phone and your

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router do and they just they just connect they just do it but no

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instead you have to take the extra step of putting your devices in discovery

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mode before they can see each other turns out that unlike wi-fi where you

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can usually just see a network automatically you can't do this with

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bluetooth unless you have some optional additional technology strapped on like a

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pair of nfc transmitters and once you deal with that you get another headache

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because the powers that be created bluetooth profiles one for streaming

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music one for phone calls one for connecting your computer mouse and so on

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and while i get the reason they did this was to save battery life here's the

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problem none of these things have been tested to play nicely with each other which is why

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sometimes your car's infotainment system will work better with your phone than it

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does with your friends and to make matters worse newer devices use what's

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called smart bluetooth where they don't even have to support every feature in a

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certain profile while this is again supposed to extend battery life by

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allowing a gadget to turn off features it's not using it makes it even more

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likely that a pairing problem will arise because of all these random profile

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combos you also have the fact that some bluetooth devices are supposed to be

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able to connect to multiple other gadgets at once but are so low power

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that their little embedded processors can't handle the extra traffic resulting

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in even more dropouts but now i'd like to talk about an issue

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that absolutely drives me nuts when i'm trying to watch video

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latency whenever i'm watching a great episode of tech wiki with bluetooth

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speakers or headphones it's like watching a badly dubbed kung fu movie

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because the audio track is so out of sync and the basic reason this happens

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is because bluetooth has relatively low data rates yet again to preserve battery

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life and hopefully improve range meaning the audio data takes a little longer to

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reach your wireless speakers or headphones than it would with a wired solution your devices also have to do

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extra processing which is often inefficient because many operating

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systems Android haven't been well optimized for

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quickly dealing with bluetooth audio i mean imagine that a wireless device

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hasn't been optimized for a wireless audio standard are you kidding me and

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yet they took away our headphone jacks who's in charge here and yes i know

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there are codecs like optics adaptive that are supposed to cut down on latency

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but it's often still noticeable due to core issues with the bluetooth spec

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whatever operating system your device is using and the inherent limitations of

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wireless audio if the powers that be haven't optimized audio by now it

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probably isn't surprising that bluetooth is also notorious for not being the most

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secure wireless protocol either as the myriad ways it has been implemented has

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made it tough for the industry to come together and figure out how to lock it

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down not to mention it's had tons of vulnerabilities surfaced since it was

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first released so is there any way to make your bluetooth

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experience a little better well

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the best things you can do are to keep all of your bluetooth devices up to date

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and disable any features you won't be using in your device settings doing both

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of these things can cut down potentially

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on frustrating pairing problems otherwise

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maybe just use wired devices unless you really need bluetooth i mean having your

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headphones connected to your phone with a wire and a dongle is that it's not

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that big of a deal guys come on

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