Fun Story--IPhone Topples Windows Wireless Network!

My brother-in-law is an engineer and has an elaborate home network set up. Wireless network, home server, a PVR which connects to six tv's wirelessly with a 500 gig HD. Has their photos and mp3's on it as well as music stations and they program the recordings using either the tv or the web. My sis has been waxing poetic on it for months! My b-i-l also thinks Apple is a cult--I've tried to tell him to come over to the dark side, but still he resists!
Anyway, I went to visit (me and my iphone) for the holidays. they had recorded tons of holidays specials for us all to watch. But, the network kept getting thrown off whenever we were watching a recording--not live TV. It would stop playing the recorded show and we'd have to restart the network. They swore it had never happened before. So . . . what's different?
We began eliminating things and what we came up with was when my phone was completely off (turning off the wireless and the bluetooth seemed to have no effect) then the recordings played fine. If I was upstairs, and they tried to play a recording, I'd hear "Aunt Sharon! Turn off your iphone!" Only the recordings seemed to get thrown off. And they've had no problems since I left, like before I arrived--all is well!
Weirdest thing! Thought folks here might enjoy it! Anyone have any idea why? Or had a similar experience? I had the wireless turned off at the house to start with, because getting my laptop on their network is a hassle and I didn't want to deal with trying to get the phone on. I don't find the Edge network to be that slow. IPhone works fine on my airport network and on the school wireless, definitely NOT mac friendly. B-i-L uses linksys hardware for all the routers and the server uses windows xp software.
Hee-hee!
Sharon

I have a similar situation. If my iPhone is on, I cannot connect my VPN on my MacBookPro, although my airport works fine for the internet. Turn the iPhone off, VPN is fine. Also I cannot connect to XBox live when the phone is on, fine when it's off. It must be somthing within our router but haven't taken it any further yet - easier just to turn the phone off if necessary.
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