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Reconnections and Bluetooth interference
Active connection to router causes Bluetooth to skip/drop
Both of my unrelated Bluetooth headphones have been skipping and having connection issues (music is locally stored), and after extensiv...
Thanks, I just checked but both my router's 5.0G and 2.4G networks are not sharing bands with any other network in range. I also did not think it was standard 2.4G interference because I can stand over the router with the bluetooth headphones without issue as long as my phone wasn't connected to the wifi. There's still the possibility of the phone having some odd issue, but I doubt it since the brief switching from wifi->cellular->wifi never occurred before this router.
That makes sense because then that WiFi connection is made so traffic is going back and forth over 2.4GHz and can then be interfered with. If you use your Bluetooth headphones and connect them to the phone via WiFi and put the phone ~3 feet away from you or put the headphones that far away does it continue to happen?
If you disable Smart Connect and connect the phone to 5GHz specifically I suspect it will work regardless of how close they both are to each other.
If you disable Smart Connect and connect the phone to 5GHz specifically I suspect it will work regardless of how close they both are to each other.