Come on!

So in my relentess persuit of changing my room into the ultimate poor man's swanky bachelor pad, I set up a nice wifi network with the linksys 54G and use my laptop as an mp3 server from which my desktop gets its playlist and blasts my huge collect to my amplifier (my desktop is old and its hdd is tiny). Sounds good eh... well the problem is the router. I try to ***** about it as little about it as I can because so many people love theirs and I know it a good machine.
But the music (and mood ) stops abruptly whenever the phone rings! Now in this room, I have a 900MHZ cordless, and all the way in the farthest room is a 2.4 and two more downstairs. So the distance between the router and NB is about 6-7 feet and the nearest 2.4 phone OR reciever is at least 15-20 feet away. Come on, when I got into this I thought it would slow the connection or only be effected when the phones are near or in the path of the singal. This is really killing me! Do all the happy users of the 54G not have 2.4 phones?

 

Is your internet connection dropping also or just the music?

I had a similar problem with VoIP and my router. Anytime I got a call, my connection would completely disconnect.

 

its just doing you a favor and getting quiet so you can talk on the phone!

kidding, kidding

 

Switch the router to Channel 11. If I remember correctly, phones only use Channels 1-10, so you shouldn't have any interference.

BTW - wouldn't the phone ringing 'spoil the mood' anyway? ;P

 

Thanks fellas, the net dies too, pretty much, when the phone stops ringing, or the person with the active heandset walks to the basement, the NB reconnects as in, the intel software does a little pop up note as it always does when it connects to something. And I already am in channel 11.

 

is this an internet phone (vonage..etc..)..if it is , check your QoS (quality of service) settings to make sure it is not getting 100% bandwidth.

when the wireless goes out, do you have to rebuild the network, or does windows just reconnect you?

pb,out.

 

What do you mean by rebuild?

What happens is it stops dead in its tracks, and then after the phone is off, an intel popup just says connected to home, not connecting or searching... or anything like that...

 

I had the same issue with a 2.4Ghz when I first set up my wireless network 3 yrs ago...luckily we switched to cell phones...