interpherence from phone

I have a 802.11g home wireless lan that works fine except that I have
significant interference from my phones. I have several 2.4 GHz phone around
the home. If I unplug the power to some of the phones, the signal power of
the lan gets stronger in various areas of the house. If an extension phone
rings with an incoming call near where I am working and where the lan
reception is weak, I lose the lan. If I move the phone receiver, it improves
things.

So the phones are certainly interfering with home wlan. Unfortunately I
need the phones in their present rooms and I am limited as to where I can
put the router. Being unclear how phone interference works I am not sure how
best to position things to minimize interference. Is phone interference
caused by the phone being 'interposed' in the line of reception of the wlan
or just a radiant effect from the phone over a certain area? Is there a way
to better shield the phones? Short of buying other phones what are the ways
to reduce the effects of this interference?

Thank you.

Jeff

"Jeff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a 802.11g home wireless lan that works fine except that I have
>significant interference from my phones. I have several 2.4 GHz phone
>around the home. If I unplug the power to some of the phones, the signal
>power of the lan gets stronger in various areas of the house. If an
>extension phone rings with an incoming call near where I am working and
>where the lan reception is weak, I lose the lan. If I move the phone
>receiver, it improves things.
>
> So the phones are certainly interfering with home wlan. Unfortunately I
> need the phones in their present rooms and I am limited as to where I can
> put the router. Being unclear how phone interference works I am not sure
> how best to position things to minimize interference. Is phone
> interference caused by the phone being 'interposed' in the line of
> reception of the wlan or just a radiant effect from the phone over a
> certain area? Is there a way to better shield the phones? Short of buying
> other phones what are the ways to reduce the effects of this interference?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jeff
>

Some phones can be configured to transmit on a different channel. Check the
owners manual for help with that. Otherwise moving the base station to
another location may or may not help. Moving the wireless network router
away from the base station may also help. Its also possible, but not
probable IMO, that changing the channel on the wireless router may fix the
issue.

The best solution is to either upgrade to a 5.8 Ghz phone system or go back
to a 900 Mhz phone system.

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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