I set up a wireless g broadband router(default channell 11)(DLINK dsl604GT connected to a netcomm VOIP adapter connected to a DECT cordless phone with base station and 1 remote handset, following the advice in your magazine.
The broadband router is connected to a PC via ethernet and speed test shows the 256k connection running at 230k, the VOIP phone function is good, with perhaps at little static at times, but there is a constant "hum" from the area where the equipment is, and the wireless connection runs very slowly on my laptop even when on the table 3 metres away (DLINK PCMCIA wirlessg card).
I thought it was the old win 98laptop, but when connected by cable to the router internet runs fast, so it must be the wireless g. I then put a wireless card in a windows 2000 computer in another room maybe 10 metres away, and although it detects the wireless network says the signal strength is too low. I know the brick interior walls may be a problem but the cordless phone and the VOIP cordless phone have no trouble out in the backyard even.
The manual for the router says not to have it near a cordless phone especially if it is 2.4GHz (it is and it 1 metre away as its attached to the router via the VOIP adapter!). It also says to change the phone to channel 1, far away from channel 11 (default for wireless g), but there seems no option on the phone to check or set channels. It also says to preferably use cordless phone at 900Mhz, but I haven't seen any other than 2.4GHz and don't know if that would be ok for VOIP. Any suggestions?
