Microwaves and 2.4 Ghz phones cause havoc with 802.11b.  I was loosing my network for awhile at very strange intervals and could not figure out why until I used a spectrum analyzer and found that a neighbor was using a 2.4 Ghz phone.

The phone was a Siemen's and it apparently would pick a channel at random each time the phone was off-hook.  If it happened to use my channel, or one close too it, it would wipe me out for the duration of the call.  Sometimes it would be a channel with enough seperation that I was not affected.

Lucky for me the neighbor wasn't very happy with the telephone anyways, so I helped them pick out a nice 900 Mhz one.



-Rob


At 08:12 PM 10/30/2003 -0800, you wrote:

Has anyone experienced total connection loss on an 802.11b connection for the duration of a phone call over a 2.4 GHz cordless phone?  The wireless connection performs well until the handset is turned on and a call is made. The signal strength drops to low and then is completely lost; as soon as the call ends the connection comes back.  Can this interference be stopped or is it simply impossible to run these two devices at the same time?

Thanks

- Pablo Lomeli

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