[reesings]

I have read here from time to time that a 2.4 GHz cordless telephone can interfere with Airport reception. Is it the nearness of the phone to the base station or to my PowerBook that would cause this problem? Currently, my phone is near my base station and Airport reception is not consistantly good.

Richard

[ae86_16v]

Originally posted by reesings:
I have read here from time to time that a 2.4 GHz cordless telephone can interfere with Airport reception. Is it the nearness of the phone to the base station or to my PowerBook that would cause this problem? Currently, my phone is near my base station and Airport reception is not consistantly good.

Richard

I notice that it depends on the brands. I am using a SMC Barricade and was using a 2.4GHz Uniden phone, there was constant interference. Now I upgrade to a 5.8GHz phone and everything seems fine.

I don't think the distance between the station and the phone's base matters.

[AssassyN]

True, the distance doesn't matter per se, it's the wavelength freqency that's screwing things up (2.4Ghz). As stated, you may wanna try a diff. phone on a diff. freq. and see if that solves it.

[ybalx]

When I first installed an Airoprt we had a 2.4 Panasonic phone system; 2001 time frame. The airport worked fine, but would loose its signal all together whenever one of the phones was in use.

We changed to a 2.4 Seimans system and have no problems.

I believe that a drop in siganl only means that you're base station is finding resistance in wall/floor construction. Try moving it around to other locations to test signal strength.

[tisoncam]

Try changing the chan. # on airport or on the phone. Also I think that AE has an option in the airport menu to turn on "Interface robustness," which should help mitigate any problems with phones, etc.

[X-Ray]

Same thing happened to me. Everytime I picked up the phone the Airport went down. Since the phones were brand new I returned them in exchange for the same brand in 900 mhz. Now all is well. Actually the only advantage to 2.4 ghz phones is that they're all digital. I found some 900 mhz that were digital and work equally well.

[reesings]

I doubt that my 2.4 GHz phones are the cause of my problem as my weak Airport signal in certain parts of the house occurs even when the phones are not in use. I am beginning to think that it all lies in where my base station is placed, mainly near a corner in my "office". I'll have to get some longer ethernet cables and try moving it around in here. My AE doesn't have an antenna port so that's out.