I thought we needed one of these threads. This is where an old fart like me asks one of you younger spags how to work his technology or make it work better.
So, I have broadband internet at home which I have going through a wireless router which services the family laptop and also my Wii. (yes, my Wii, get yer giggles out!) In case this helps, both the broadband internet box and router are in the basement and the laptop and Wii are on the ground floor.
Like most civilized, yet antiquated households, we have a cordless land-line phone. It isn't digital phone service, it's the regular, old-fashioned big Telecom phone service. Whenever we get a phone call, or make a phone call, it seems to disrupt the internet signal going to the laptop and Wii.
Sometimes the laptop will get the signal back, the Wii hardly ever does, and so I have to go disconnect the power from each box to reset the signal, and then it works.
So my question is "what the hell man?" Should I have to be going through this rigamarol? Is there something else I can do to not have this inconvenience to my life? Is there some setting or switch or something on the router I can play with to make it better? What gives man?
So, I have broadband internet at home which I have going through a wireless router which services the family laptop and also my Wii. (yes, my Wii, get yer giggles out!) In case this helps, both the broadband internet box and router are in the basement and the laptop and Wii are on the ground floor.
Like most civilized, yet antiquated households, we have a cordless land-line phone. It isn't digital phone service, it's the regular, old-fashioned big Telecom phone service. Whenever we get a phone call, or make a phone call, it seems to disrupt the internet signal going to the laptop and Wii.
Sometimes the laptop will get the signal back, the Wii hardly ever does, and so I have to go disconnect the power from each box to reset the signal, and then it works.
So my question is "what the hell man?" Should I have to be going through this rigamarol? Is there something else I can do to not have this inconvenience to my life? Is there some setting or switch or something on the router I can play with to make it better? What gives man?