ELI5: Sometimes when I’m walking through the city, my wireless headphones’ audio will clip as if there’s interference to the Bluetooth connection despite nothing coming between my phone and headphones. Could it be other ppl’s Bluetooth signals? Why or why not
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Probably not, Bluetooth is really good at handling congestion. For me it only happens when my body gets between the phone in my left pocket and the Bluetooth receiver on my right ear. (and radio doesnt really like to go around corners, same as any light.
Water is really good at stopping Bluetooth and you are mostly water. Try moving your phone to your other pocket or a shirt pocket.
Yes, it’s best to think as Bluetooth as being one person shouting to another across a room, when they are the only people it easy, a few people is not a problem they can still hear each other but get 20 people in a room all shouting messages across it and something going to get missed
Bluetooth operates on short-range radio waves, and utilizes about 79 channels in that frequency range. Good chance that this brief period of no sound out of your bluetooth headphones is because the signal itself was interrupted by the electromagnetic interference of the city while it was scanning for and finding another channel to use with less interface. While bluetooth has a limited range, cities are pretty populated with a lot of different wireless signals and just general a lot of electromagnetic fields and can easily interrupt other wireless signals.
My mate has a problem with his bt earphones whenever he’s at a crosswalk and the lights change, seriously. No idea why it happens and how to fix that tho.