Wireless internet goes down when phone rings

[Randymarsh9]

Everytime my house phone rings, it knocks off my wireless internet. I know this is because the router and phones are on the same frequency, and since hte phone signal is stronger it knocks out the internet, but I don't know how I can fix that. I really need to fix it too because they computer I am hosting my server on is wireless.

[trevius]

Hosting a server on a wireless connection is a horrible idea in the first place. It will be plagued with lag and random disconnects almost no matter what you do. And unless you can either buy new phones or a new router that runs on different frequencies, I don't think there is much you can do to help the problem you are having. You might be able to change the channel that your wireless uses in your router config, but I don't know if that will help at all. There should be a good number of wireless settings there though, and maybe some google searching would help. I am sure other people have run into problems like this before and I think I have even had interference from my old wireless phones before I replaced them and later changed my PC back to a wired connection. I don't really know what they were thinking when making phones and wireless routers that both operate on the same frequency... Some phones will let you change channels or frequencies on them as well, but not all.

[Randymarsh9]

In my wireless configuration in my router settings, would i change the wireless channel (1-11, its set at 1 automatically)?

[LeftRoad]

Typically the Linksys wireless routers use channel 6 as a default, I'm not sure about others. If yours is using 1 then I would recommend changing it to 11. With 2.4GHz phones you'd have to check their manual to see exactly what frequency it uses, then compare that to the frequencies on the wireless router. Well, that's the way I solved this issue when I first ran into it and had interference on channel 6 (changing to channel 11 fixed the issue). But, if it is interfering on channel 1 (which is most likely closest to the frequency of the phone) then 11 is your best bet. Otherwise, option 2, you'd have to buy a 5.8GHz phone.

[Angelox]

I have a wireless router, but don't use the wireless portion - I have everything wired to it, and still my connection dropped when the phone rang. I had to remove the phone and put in a regular wired phone.
I have DSL, and I thought my problem might somehow be related to DSL and my phone. Next time I get some money, I'll try you 5.8GHz phone idea

[Yeormom]

Angelox, do you have filters on your phones? To operate DSL properly, all analog devices must have a filter installed before them. Your ISP should have given you a handful when you signed up. If not, call and they will get you some free of charge most likely.

As far as wireless and phones go, just go buy a 900mhz phone and be done with it. Most 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz phones today have frequency hoping features which is for security so they're gonna get you regardless of what you configure your access point to use. If you don't use 802.11a, then a 5.8ghz phone will also work wonders much like the 900mhz.