cordless phones

[Arneson]

By trial and error, read accident, I discovered that a phone in a back room closet was 900mhz.
I was using it for internet calls on the dsl line and when I switched it with a 5.8ghz, all of the wireless headphones started working again.
Last year I had to ban the 2.4mhz from the house because of the wifi network.
Even the logitech mice and keyboards are working better, range wise.
Just an FYI.

[sirbogey]

what do you mean by "started working again?" They were not working before?

[Pez]

I found out by accident that when I send or receive a call on my cell phone near my sub it will activate the auto on feature.

[Arneson]

Pez, that's an odd thing? Call it an extra cool feature? Could that be BlueTooth?

Bogey, that is correct that they stopped working because of interference.
I have a set for late night computing and one for TV watching.
I noticed they could no longer recieve anything and believed they had failed.
So I have banned the 900mhz phones.

[chrispy35]

Don't most 900 MHz devices have selectable channels to avoid interference?

Chris P.

[Arneson]

Frequency hopping may put a phone in a certain slot, then a few days later I turn on the the other wireless device and cafloouey, whoever is stronger wins and they both suffer.
Caflouey by the way is a technical term indicating I was about to throw them out.

This becomes a problem when so many things go wireless within a certain range.
You may have wireless: cars, trucks,helicopters and planes, garage openers, rf remotes, mice and keyboards, x10 stuff, cameras, key fobs, cordless phones, rca lyra, I-go audio link.
These are just to mention a few that I see looking around my room. They should all be well made and play nice, but may not.
In fact, thank you for reminding me of the Lyra device, I have to check and see where it sits in the radio band.