Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

[Steve Smith]

Nick - I don't believe I've seen anyone answer you on this. I've been using bluetooth headphones for about 4 years now and just got a new pair... I don't *expect* mine to work beyond maybe a few yards... occasionally I leave my phone in my truck and walk away while listening to a podcast... and notice that they tend to start breaking up and cut out at 10-15 meters...  though this is without any hard walls between... though maybe the shell of my vehicle is worse?     At home I never test them beyond maybe 5 meters and never expect them to work through walls.   If they are specced at 30 (of course it depends on the quality of the *other* end of the pair as well) meters then I'd expect them to work moderately past half of that with nothing in the way.  My understanding is that the body itself can block signal too, so the fact that you might have them on your head (as they are designed to be used) and your entire torso (lean as you might be) could be between the endpoints, could have a big effect. What is your use case for distances greater than a few meters?  Were you hoping to walk around the house listening to a podcast or making phone calls?   It is a reasonable thing to want, but I guess I haven't imagined it for myself yet, despite the specs suggesting longer range. Hi, everybody,   Does anybody out there use Bluetooth headphones with their computer?  I was given a pair for Christmas (sony mdr-10rbt) which is specified to operate at ten meters. I have them paired on my computer with a CSR 4.0 dongle which is supposed to get 30 plus meters.  Together I can barely get 4 meters out of them.   Sony has agreed to send me new phones, but I didn’t get the feeling that their technical folks had any idea what was going on.  They couldn’t answer questions like, “well have you been getting a lot of these back?”  I suspect it’s either an “environmental problem” or just a limitation not reflected in the specifications, and that a new set of phones is not going to solve the problem.   Does anybody have any experience with this technology?   Thanks,   Nick   Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/   ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

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