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A little back story before I begin. This past month or two I have upgraded my house's network router to one that has Wi-Fi 802.11n. So far we have one computer that is hooked up via Wi-Fi. I put a PCI card into it. We also have two sets of cordless phones in the house. Just the other week however my dad was yelling at me because he noticed whenever he uses the white uniden cordless phones upstairs the Wi-Fi on said desktop PC would disconnect.
He questioned why it would do that when supposedly the DSL filters I installed on the phones should protect from interferance. I tried explaining to him that the Wi-Fi and the DSL are two seperate systems and those filters only protect the wired portion but he couldn't understand it. In fact he tried to dismiss my explanation out of hand and insist that those DSL filters should help with the wireless. That issue basically went unresolved that day. I messed around with it and I found setting the channel on which the Wi-Fi runs on to anything other than "auto" in my router mostly just halved the wireless bandwidth without actually solving the problem.
I eventually figured out the problem. Those white uniden 2.4Ghz phones they have upstairs are so old and crappy they stomp all over wireless signals in the vicinity on the same frequency. My phones are newer black and silver 5.8GHz uniden phones don't do that and have more features than those older phones to boot (such as speaker phone in each handset). So I decided to remove my family's old white ones and replace them with mine. Basically I just kept the base station hooked up in my room. I was almost thinking we would have to get new phones but I didn't realize that I already had 5.8Ghz cordless phones... the belt clip covers that on the back so I forgot.
This afternoon I almost thought the internet and my phone where going to be shut off again. Someone tried calling this evening... it could have been Adia.. I don't know. It showed up as Privtate Name\Private Number in the caller ID. I picked up the phone and it was nothing but silence. I started panicing a little because both of my phones exhibited this. I called my family through skype with my USB handset before I figured out that it was probably the cord I was using which doesn't snap all the way in and it probably came to loose and hey it's probably a crappy cord in general. I called them back afterwards and told them that.
So I decided to move the base station for my cordless phones upstairs to the kitchen and have the spare handset in my room instead of the other way around. It seems to work well that way so far and I don't have to have any phone connected to my DSL modem this way. Right now I just have my DSL modem hooked to the phone jack here... and of course the router right above it in the rack I have them and my A/V equipment in. My dad asked if we where going to have to buy new phones and I told him no because my phones are just fine and I got one upstairs and one downstairs which is all we need really.
He questioned why it would do that when supposedly the DSL filters I installed on the phones should protect from interferance. I tried explaining to him that the Wi-Fi and the DSL are two seperate systems and those filters only protect the wired portion but he couldn't understand it. In fact he tried to dismiss my explanation out of hand and insist that those DSL filters should help with the wireless. That issue basically went unresolved that day. I messed around with it and I found setting the channel on which the Wi-Fi runs on to anything other than "auto" in my router mostly just halved the wireless bandwidth without actually solving the problem.
I eventually figured out the problem. Those white uniden 2.4Ghz phones they have upstairs are so old and crappy they stomp all over wireless signals in the vicinity on the same frequency. My phones are newer black and silver 5.8GHz uniden phones don't do that and have more features than those older phones to boot (such as speaker phone in each handset). So I decided to remove my family's old white ones and replace them with mine. Basically I just kept the base station hooked up in my room. I was almost thinking we would have to get new phones but I didn't realize that I already had 5.8Ghz cordless phones... the belt clip covers that on the back so I forgot.
This afternoon I almost thought the internet and my phone where going to be shut off again. Someone tried calling this evening... it could have been Adia.. I don't know. It showed up as Privtate Name\Private Number in the caller ID. I picked up the phone and it was nothing but silence. I started panicing a little because both of my phones exhibited this. I called my family through skype with my USB handset before I figured out that it was probably the cord I was using which doesn't snap all the way in and it probably came to loose and hey it's probably a crappy cord in general. I called them back afterwards and told them that.
So I decided to move the base station for my cordless phones upstairs to the kitchen and have the spare handset in my room instead of the other way around. It seems to work well that way so far and I don't have to have any phone connected to my DSL modem this way. Right now I just have my DSL modem hooked to the phone jack here... and of course the router right above it in the rack I have them and my A/V equipment in. My dad asked if we where going to have to buy new phones and I told him no because my phones are just fine and I got one upstairs and one downstairs which is all we need really.
