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Sahuagin posted...

certain frequencies are reserved for certain things. cellular seems like it's using a wide variety of frequencies that are less than 2GHz (with the odd one being above 2GHz). bluetooth and WiFi are both specifically using 2.4GHz (which really means something like 2.40-2.48 GHz). I don't have any direct experience with them interfering, it's just what comes up when researching this.

He's talking about connecting to the phone via Bluetooth.

Realistically the adapter isn't a very high standard and still has to pass through a noisy USB connection to be translated further along, while phones have their bluetooth and wifi built directly in to the chip, which is where the vast majority of R&D goes in to on a phone.

The only thing I could suggest is a high quality PCI-e network card to get a high standard of bluetooth straight to the motherboard, but even then I suspect it's not going to be as good as what your phone will manage.

It's also worth noting that if the new pairs run a higher bandwidth transfer protocol, there's more data to be interfered with, so it's more susceptible to loss than lower ones. There are sometimes ways to reduce the bitrate to improve connection standard (Sony had a system that would auto-switch between 3 different bitrates dependant on connection standard).