Nils Faerber wrote: > > This could be a firmware bug in the WLAN module as well... > WIFI and Bluetooth use the same frequency spectrum of 2.4GHz. Bluetooth > usually does not interfere with WIFIsince it uses very rapid channel > switch (up to 1200 channel switches per second). > But if you do an inquiry the Bluetooth module will almost broadcast > inquiry packets on all of those channels almost at once to catch modules > in its range. The inquiry scan algorithm is quite scary ;) > So inquiry cause a lot of noise in the 2.4GHz spectrum. > What could happen is that the WIFI firmware does not handle > receive/transmit faults too well. So under certain circumstance while > doing an inquiry a WIFI packet might get messed up quite badly without > the radio detecting a signal drop (because in fact it had a good carrier > all the time). Probably the same fault could be triggered with a high > traffic WIFI cell... Yes, this looks like explanation. I hope it could be fixed in software. It is quite annoying when playing with bluetooth commands when I am ssh-ed into device over wi-fi. But it is also an issue in normal use cases like searching for the phone when listening to streamed music etc. Frantisek
