I use cordless telephones and a Netgear wireless router at home. Whenever someone picks up the cordless phone it knocks out my wireless connection. The phones are 2.4 ghz. As I understand it the router is also 2.4 ghz. Any way to configure a different frequency? Solve the problem another way?

Thanks for your help.

Thad

Change the channel that your router broadcasts on.
The default is normally 6 try going to 11 or 12

Thanks. Actually tried that. It was set to chan 11, changed it to chan 1. Still have the same issue. Question, can the frequence be changed without replacing the router and the adapter on my laptop?

Wireless operates on 2.4 Ghz (802.11) the channel changes are small steps around this freq, so no you can't change the freq at all.

The technology you want to research is FHSS (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/FHSS.html) or here (http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,290660,sid7_gci525695,00.html). Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum.

This is how mulitple 2.4GHz devices can co-exist peacefully.

You might try to unplug the cordless phone base, for 5 minutes or so, so that the router has went through several hopping patterns.