WiFi, Wireless Speakers and Video senders

Hi,

I currently have a set of DECT telephones, and a set of Wireless speakers,
both of which claim to use 2.4GHz. As far as I can detect I'm
experiencing no problems with this setup.

Now I'm thinking of adding a Wi-Fi network and a Videosender into the mix,
both of which also claim to use 2.4GHz

Am I likely to experience any interference problems running all four sets
of devices together, or do they all simply share a range of frequencies
around 2.4GHz without clashing ?

TIA

Sean

seani <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I currently have a set of DECT telephones, and a set of Wireless speakers,
> both of which claim to use 2.4GHz. As far as I can detect I'm
> experiencing no problems with this setup.
>
> Now I'm thinking of adding a Wi-Fi network and a Videosender into the mix,
> both of which also claim to use 2.4GHz
>
> Am I likely to experience any interference problems running all four sets
> of devices together, or do they all simply share a range of frequencies
> around 2.4GHz without clashing ?

I wish there was a way to understand the answer to this question
predictably. Well, maybe there is, but I don't know what it is!

I have two wireless access point and two 2.4 Ghz cordless phones. One
of the phones interferes with one of the access points sometimes (but
never with the other).

FWIW the access point that is prone to interference is a cheap Belkin
802.11b wireless router, and the one that isn't prone to interference
(at least not from anything I've noticed yet) is a Linksys WAP11 2.2.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:33:20 -0800, Hal Sadofsky wrote:

> seani <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I currently have a set of DECT telephones, and a set of Wireless speakers,
>> both of which claim to use 2.4GHz. As far as I can detect I'm
>> experiencing no problems with this setup.
>>
>> Now I'm thinking of adding a Wi-Fi network and a Videosender into the mix,
>> both of which also claim to use 2.4GHz
>>
>> Am I likely to experience any interference problems running all four sets
>> of devices together, or do they all simply share a range of frequencies
>> around 2.4GHz without clashing ?
>
> I wish there was a way to understand the answer to this question
> predictably. Well, maybe there is, but I don't know what it is!
>
> I have two wireless access point and two 2.4 Ghz cordless phones. One
> of the phones interferes with one of the access points sometimes (but
> never with the other).
>
> FWIW the access point that is prone to interference is a cheap Belkin
> 802.11b wireless router, and the one that isn't prone to interference
> (at least not from anything I've noticed yet) is a Linksys WAP11 2.2.

Thanks Hal. Definitely *some* issues then (even if we can't predict why or
when). I'll gather more evidence before I splash out.

I was interested in the VideoSender, so I did a little research. The product
description from X10 doesn't tell you squat, although it does grudgingly
admit (in the fine print) that it uses 2.4Ghz. It says nothing about inner
workings.

Check out:

http://www.techtv.com/freshgear/comm...585258,00.html

for a real user experience. Also have a look at this newsgroup's thread
entitled "Bluetooth and Wireless Network".

Bottom line is you're asking for trouble. I went out of the way to get
900Mhz cordless phones. That said, the VideoSender does claim to have a
3-channel switch. It doesn't say what the center frequencies of these
channels are, though.

Since the VS transmitter is connected direcly to TV video/audio out, it
probably just transmits the plain analog signal. That has a bandwidth of
6Mhz, so it seems at least possible that you could move 802.11 out of the
way. YMMV.

"seani" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed) in...
> On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:33:20 -0800, Hal Sadofsky wrote:
>
> > seani <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I currently have a set of DECT telephones, and a set of Wireless
speakers,
> >> both of which claim to use 2.4GHz. As far as I can detect I'm
> >> experiencing no problems with this setup.
> >>
> >> Now I'm thinking of adding a Wi-Fi network and a Videosender into the
mix,
> >> both of which also claim to use 2.4GHz
> >>
> >> Am I likely to experience any interference problems running all four
sets
> >> of devices together, or do they all simply share a range of frequencies
> >> around 2.4GHz without clashing ?
> >
> > I wish there was a way to understand the answer to this question
> > predictably. Well, maybe there is, but I don't know what it is!
> >
> > I have two wireless access point and two 2.4 Ghz cordless phones. One
> > of the phones interferes with one of the access points sometimes (but
> > never with the other).
> >
> > FWIW the access point that is prone to interference is a cheap Belkin
> > 802.11b wireless router, and the one that isn't prone to interference
> > (at least not from anything I've noticed yet) is a Linksys WAP11 2.2.
>
> Thanks Hal. Definitely *some* issues then (even if we can't predict why or
> when). I'll gather more evidence before I splash out.