cordless phone

[syco83]

Can a wireless router interfer with a cordless phone?
I seen 2.4Ghz phones and since wireless uses 2.4Ghz do they have conflicts?

 

[Diaonic]

Yes they do.

Heres the one experience I had with it.

I had a apple base station ( graphite for reference).A co-worker had a 2.4 ghz cordless phone, whenever she turned it on. The signal on the airport would basically die. I tried changing channels on the airport and the phone but it only helped to a certain degree, the longer she stayed on it would get worse and eventually just die off.

We replaced the cordless phone with a 5.4 ghz phone and all our problems went away.

Hope this helps, I'm sure Jack/Spidey or Scott could explain this better.

 

[syco83]

i understand i thought so since they both worked on same frequency

 

[skyking]

That is why the cheap old 900mhz rock, as well as the spendy 5.4 ghz.
If you can get it done with the 900MHZ, then there will be no conflict.

 

[funkymatt]

beware of the 5.4ghz lower end phones actually only receive at 5.8ghz and tramsmit at 2.4ghz