Re: WiFi conflicting with Bluetooth

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On 07/22/2016 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Wild thought: how good is the battery level in the mouse?
> 
> 75% right now. The problem happens the same whether 15% or 90% on
> Fedora, and never on macOS.
> 
> 
> 
>> I have occasional blips with my BT mouse in KDE (using a Broadcom
>> dongle) especially after resuming from suspension (not so much for
>> hibernation). They fix themselves when I pull the dongle and reinsert
>> it, or use a second mouse to click on the KDE BT widget Connect button.
>> I've never been able to figure out what's going on.
> 
> There's definitely a conflict. On a clean reboot with both WiFi and
> Bluetooth left on at reboot time, the mouse/keyboard never connect. I
> have to turn off the WiFi radio itself, and then boom, Bluetooth
> devices connect pretty much instantly.
> 
> The disconnect from Bluetooth seems to coincide with the WiFi radio
> disconnecting from on AP MAC address and connecting to a different AP
> MAC address. This laptop does this disconnect/reconnect routine
> exactly every two minutes, always, to the second. I'm guessing it must
> be unique behavior to its WiFi firmware. A nearby Intel NUC also on
> Wireless doesn't behave this way, it goes hours or even days connected
> to one of those two APs.
> 

Both bluetooth and wifi use the 2.4GHz frequency band. If you have
dual-band wifi, try using a frequency in the 5GHz band. Failing that,
try to get your wifi to use a different channel. That may clear it up.
This is always going to be an issue.
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