What can be done about wireless connection being dropped due to interference?

Hey guys, I work at a small business, we have two notebooks with 802.11b /g cards and a b/g wireless router. We recently purchased wireless headsets for our sales staff. But, whenever they are in use, the notebooks wireless connection fails. The headsets are on 2.4GHz and apparently they operate on all channels since changing the channel on the router doesn't have an effect.

We are considering looking for a 900MHz headset to use instead. But this may be tough since we need something that can interface with our PBX telephone system.

I'm sure an 802.11a setup would probably fix the problem since it runs at 5.8GHz. But, there are still problems with that solution too. First of all, we'd have to spend money to buy a new router and wireless cards. I'd prefer internal cards for the notebooks, but I'm not sure if I will find driver support. Lastly, if we are on 'a' and we have a vendor or customer come in who wants to use our wireless, most likely they're not going to have an 'a' compatible card.

Anyway, I'm sure I'm not the first person to encounter this issue. What have you all done to work-around this?

 

I'd much rather buy 5GHz 11n cards and routers. I also think your internall antennas will be 2.4GHz only, so you'd be stuck with Expresscard/Cardbus cards.

As for your visitors: can't you keep your original router as a double? They'd have to get used to the interference, though..

 

Thanks for the suggestion. Are there any cards and router you recommend?

 

why not upgrade your phone system to 5.8ghz? my phones no longer interfere with wireless networking now that i have 5.8ghz phones.

 

Stupid standards. Why they didn't use 2,5 GHz? Not free freq? Hm. Bluetooth also lingers there somewhere. We really need more freqs.

Cheers,

Ivan