In the battle between 2.4GHz 802.11b (“Wi-Fi”) wireless communication and 2.4GHz spread-spectrum digital phones, the phones win hands down. “Win,” as in, “Trash the signal of the other.”<\/p>\n
(Yes, I’ve bitched<\/a> about<\/a> this<\/a> before.)<\/p>\n Well, I’d finally decided to invest my birthday present from my wife (“camera replacement”) into a new 5.8GHz phone system. But she did me one better, since 5.8GHz is still limited in availability and extortionate in price. For a mere pittance, she found a 900MHz system that does 95% of what we wanted — two handsets, call-waiting at the sofa and the base station, integrated answering machine. It’s a crappy little Uniden thang, but it will tide us over until something better comes along.<\/p>\n It’s missing some nice features of the old Sony — running through the Caller ID info as it played the corresponding answering machine message, for example — but it’s got one small advantage, since it’s a cordless phone at the base station as well as at the remote station.<\/p>\n More importantly, it’s 900MHz, which means my Wi-Fi connection is safe, and I don’t need to mutter nasty things under my breath when people call and knock me offline or lock up my machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the battle between 2.4GHz 802.11b (“Wi-Fi”) wireless communication and 2.4GHz spread-spectrum digital phones, the phones win hands down. “Win,” as in, “Trash the signal of the other.” (Yes, I’ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3601,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/21\/weekend_update-4.html","url_meta":{"origin":3220,"position":0},"title":"Weekend Update","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Oct-02 7:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because I'd like to think you care ... 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