Sorry to be so late answering all your helpful posts, but I learned the hard way the answer to my problem:
Two days ago there was a BIG fire in a warehouse about 2 miles from my apartment. It was so big that burned the electrical and cable TV wires that feed a large part of my area.
So I was without electrical power for about two hours, and without cable and cable internet for about two days.
And guess what? My phone worked perfectly, without the strange noises. Mind you, is a Panasonic 900 MHz, so there should not be any interference, but there is. My previous phone, a different brand 900MHz never gave me problems.
So yes, there is interference between my NetGear base and my phone.
Live and learn.
:-)
Hi Hugo,
I've had lots of experience with this issue. The people who tell you that 900MHz phones and 2.4GHz WiFi equipment don't interfere with each other are mistaken or are really lucky (having never experienced it first hand). Yes, they are different wavelengths, and they aren't even harmonic, but a 900MHz phone's antenna absolutely CAN receive 2.4GHz signals (albeit with some signal loss). If your phone's base station and your WiFi access point are co-located, this can cause problems for your cordless phone.
I've got a 4-year old Sony 900MHz phone that works GREAT when the phone's base station isn't near my wireless AP _and_ when my handset's line-of-sight to the base station isn't the same line-of-sight between the base station and wireless AP. When the intersect, the phone glitches out and keeps trying to switch channels.
The problem gets worse the closer the two frequencies are to each other (so 2.4GHz phones and WiFi) and when the frequencies share a harmonic.
Peace, Drew
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