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MultiNav Pro+ BLE - connection interval tuning at long range, any tips?

Charles LewisJuly 25, 2026
Hey all, working on a remote sensor node deployment and using the MultiNav Pro+ BLE module as the main link back to a base station. Things are working, but I'm trying to squeeze better latency out of it without tanking the link stability at distance. Right now I've got the connection interval set pretty conservatively because I was worried about dropped packets but I'm wondering if anyone has actually experimented with tightening that up at, say, 20-30km range and what happened.
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AdamJuly 25, 2026
@Charles Lewis yeah this is something I've messed around with a bit — the short answer is that tightening the connection interval at those ranges is doable but you have to be pretty careful about your supervision timeout ratio or you'll get spurious disconnects that are hard to diagnose.
 
The thing that bit me early on was that at longer range you're dealing with more variable propagation delay and occasional retransmissions, so if your supervision timeout isn't sitting at like 6-10x your connection interval minimum, the peripheral can timeout before it gets a chance to recover from a bad packet window. I'd rather have a slightly wider interval with a well-tuned timeout than a tight interval that's constantly on the edge.
 
What's your current interval and supervision timeout set to? That'd help narrow down whether there's actually headroom to tighten things or if you're already pushing it. Also worth checking the GitHub repo for the module firmware — there are some STM32WB07 specific timing considerations in there that aren't obvious from the BLE spec alone.
david moloneyJuly 25, 2026
At 20-30km you're really pushing BLE into territory where the connection interval is kind of the least of your worries compared to what the RF environment is doing to you - but from what I've played with, tightening below about 100ms at that range tends to invite more supervision timeouts than it's worth, so I'd honestly leave the interval where it is and look at whether your TX power and antenna setup are actually dialled in first. What's your current RSSI looking like at the far end?

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