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An update to Bluetooth, version 5.0, will debut next week. The update will double the range and quadruple the speed of low energy Bluetooth transmissions, which should mean an increase to 200m and four megabits per second respectively, and about one megabit per second available to applications. Bluetooth SIG executive …

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  1. Frenchie Lad

    "more capacity to advertising transmissions"

    Marvellous how standards bodies are helping facilitate sending unwanted material to end-users. Makes you believe that one's main purpose in life is as cannon fodder for consumerism.

    Then of course you can always eschew BT 5 and not profit from the 200m range.

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      Re: "more capacity to advertising transmissions"

      I don't want to be "beaconed" and "located". 200m range means someone can track quite easily the phone in my car from outside - the only place where BT is active. Don't really like it.

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      Re: "more capacity to advertising transmissions"

      I don't think you are understanding 'advertising' in the correct context here.

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    I think we are safe this time. "Advertising" is what a BT node does to makes its presence known to other nodes ;-)

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    200m range

    Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha. Riiiiiiiiiight. Can't imagine there'll be too many end users who get that sort of performance...

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      Re: 200m range

      It is nearly impossible to get that range with wifi unless you're outdoors and have a finely tuned setup, so I agree that the 200m is theoretical, like the maximum speed of 802.11ac.

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  4. Jim Willsher

    It's not nicknamed slowtooth for no reason.....

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