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As an interesting experiment, take a connected bluetooth speaker and put it in a microwave oven (without turning it on, and if there is any question of it being
by chasil 3y ago
As an interesting experiment, take a connected bluetooth speaker and put it in a microwave oven (without turning it on, and if there is any question of it being on, unplug it).
You will find that the bluetooth connection is instantly broken by the shielding when the door is closed.
Bluetooth also has to put up with leaky microwave ovens, in addition to other users of the 2.4GHz band.
- lxgr 3y agoTrue, microwave ovens usually don't implement CSMA/CA :)
- somehnguy 3y agoI just put my iPhone 13 into my microwave while playing music on my AirPods Pro. They kept playing reliably until about 10 feet away, where breakup started occurring. By 15 feet the connection was gone. Walking back into the 10 feet range the music started again though.
- lxgr 3y agoMost Apple devices including AirPods support Bluetooth Class 1, which have a 40 times higher maximum transmit power than the more common Class 2.
- chasil 3y agoThat is quite interesting. Thanks for sharing the results. I don't have Apple devices, so I am not able to verify this for myself at the moment. I'm assuming that other bluetooth devices die immediately.