spent the best part of half a day yesterday, and a few hours this morning trying to install a wireless router for customer and get the AOL BB working. :shock:

after loads and loads of searchings, and reinstalling/unistalling the usb dongle, re setting the router, even using the AOL setup disk :x and fresh installing windows(it needed it anyway) :whoops:

to eventually find the cordless phones where interfering with the signal DOH! :cry:

what a muppet!

feel like im coming down with man flu now too, what a sh*t weekend allready.  

always best to start with the obvious known issues

DECT phones are a pain in the arse.

Yes cordless phones are a pain.  More so becuase they channel hop so they do not become a victim of intereferance.  They are all over the spectrum.

ill take a screen shot of it with some sofware I have for finding interferance.

I still want to know whos idea it was to have all cordless phones and tv extender/transmitters around the 2.4Ghz range.

Quote from: CypherI still want to know whos idea it was to have all cordless phones and tv extender/transmitters around the 2.4Ghz range.

Its pretty much the only band that you dont require a licence to run on.  So it gets used a lot for various things.  Its irritating, but you have to live with it sometimes, high-gain antenna are good cheat.  As is cutting down on the antenna on the DECT phone.  

You can get stuff that uses the 5GHz band, but its more expensive. This does however mean that theres less stuff in that band, so less interference.

I never owned a cordless and will not get one, why ? I have a cellular so why have a cordless ?
Like it is not enough of electromagnetical waves in the air as it is.

I always figured if your bothering to get a wireless phone get a SIP one. Its cheaper and wont cause you wireless grief.

whats wrong with some paper cups and some string?

theyre not wireless!

...and they dont work.  That or I forgot to pay the phone bill.