Telephone intefering signal
Hi everyone
I'm having this anoying problem with my wireless network using my airport express and iMac. It seems that everytime the phone is answered, my iMac can't recognize the network I set up. For some reason this only happens with my iMac, my PowerBook G4 doesnt experience this problem at all.
Yes my Phone is cordless working at 2.4GHz and I am aware that such a phone can cause problems with wireless networks. But my question is why do this only affect my iMac (new btw, just recieved it yesterday) and not my older powerbook. Second, what can i do to get around this problem?
Thanks in advance
Okay, my problem here is that I can't get my base station to configure on my PBG4. I tried to rescan and enter the base station number of my desktop computer, but I keep getting an error message. Thus, I'm not able to change channels.
Any suggestions?
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have al look if the RAM-module sits firmly in its socket. In chapter four of [this manual|http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/PowerBookG415inDblLayerSuperDrive.pdf] you can find out how to locate it, be careful with the clips at the sides, they tend to break.
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Seriously? I couldn't find a whole lot on this problem.....are there plans to patch this functionality in? Even the most basic rudimentary software's update utility supports a proxy server.....this renders my phone useless on pretty much any business network.
GG.The phone has been our for almost a year...
Palm knows how to do this (centro, treo) and they know it's a must have for corporate users so I'm asking P L E A S E add support for this.
Where I work we don't get telephone carrier signals in the interior of our buildings (packed full of computers and networking, etc.) but we have great wifi.
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I live in an area with a weak telephone signal so when I send an SMS message I have to 'Try Again'. What option do I set to automatically try again?
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ou que je me trouve, sur mon iphone 3GS j'ai toujours un probleme de force signal reseau alors que avec meme carte SIM dans autre telephone , signal maxi. Que faire ?
apparement depuis que ce telephone a ete dessimloque de chez orange depuis orange.fr et par itunes.Bonjour
je viens d'acheter un iphone 5S et je rencontre les mêmes problèmes de faiblesse de signal pourtant signal max avec la même puce sur d'autre téléphone.
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Having major signal problems - losing important telephone calls
Since having my contract with EE i have been experiencing major signal issues. losing important phone calls etc - can you help? Iphone 6 Plus
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Which area does this happen in?
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How do I get telephone signals based on my music into oPhone 5?
I want my favourite music to become my ring signal in my iPhone5. What to do?
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Iphone in Great Britian discovers Apple tech problem - Signal Strength -
November 25, 2007
Signal trouble: British iPhone mystery
Is O2’s network to blame, or Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone?
That’s the question posed by more than a few British iPhone owners who purchased the device in the past two weeks and have been struggling ever since to get decent telephone reception on it.
The problem surfaced two days after the phone went on sale in the U.K. when “Matlock” in Derbyshire started a discussion thread on Apple’s support board entitled “UK 02 (poor signal strength/reception problems)”:
My iphone can barely pick up even the slightest signal, although on occasion can pick up 3 ars, only for it to drop out again. I have two other 02 phones, a Sony Erricson and a Nokia n95 with no reception problems at all. Is anyone experiencing same problem with their iphone, I would like to hear from you. (link)
Two weeks later, Matlock’s query has received more than 100 replies (and 3,723 pageviews), most of them registering similar complaints. Some users found that reinstalling the software made a difference. When others returned their phones for new ones, the problem went away (although some reported that the new phones were no better).
Definitive U.K. sales figures are not available, but O2 reported that it sold “tens of thousands” of iPhones the first weekend it was available.
Several posters on the Apple discussion board volunteered that unlike the complainants, they were getting great reception on their iPhones. And many owners with signal problems expressed pleasure with how well the device performed its other functions.
But unlike American iPhone owners, who tend to blame any reception headaches on AT&T’s (T) cellular network, the assumption in the U.K. seems to be that the signal problem is Apple’s. The impression is reinforced by O2, which has been referring callers directly to the manufacturer.
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It says in the manual that phone signal is adjusted to the minimum power when not in use, just enough to detect the incoming pings, then it will power up to get the best quality call. It is digital, so as long as the signal power is strong enough to reconstruct at the other end, more power is pointless. I suspect this is what you are seeing, or a slightly flakey implementation.
Meanwhile, the consensus on the discussion board is that unhappy owners should let Apple know. Writes one user who posts as ::…SAM…::,
The only way to get anything done about it is if people that have poor signal problems is to take your phone back and get it replaced. The more phones they get back, the sooner they will do something to fix the problem. Emails and complaints are fine, they can be put in a folder, high handset return numbers cant be so easy to hide under the rug.
Thanks to InformationWeek’s Alexander Wolfe for the link. See his report here.
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tbh, I think its an inherent problem with smart phones. However, with my iPhone I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary really. Its better than the XDA, at least the iPhone doesn't drop out completely!
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Cancelled Infinity. Wifi signal did not reach rest...
Short synopsis:
Before buying Infinity, try your current wifi hub plugged into your master socket, and see if your wifi signal can still reach the rest of the house. If your master is at the wrong end of the house to your computers, like me, then BT will offer you pretty much no solution. And once you discover this to be the case, they make it extremely difficult to downgrade the contract to DSL, let alone cancelling the (useless) broadband connection.
Long rant:
The engineer came to install Infinity. We talked briefly about moving the Master Socket from a small room at the front of the house. Initially he said that it was not possible to move the Master at all, but when pushed he said that in doing so he'd have to disconnect any internal wiring, meaning all the rest of the telephone sockets in the house would no longer work. I didn't want that. I also didn't want an ethernet cable trailing round my house, and he couldn't plumb one outside. _But_, he said, the wifi range of the Hub is excellent and will easily cover the house. And also the speed difference between wifi and wired is negligable. Sounded great. After switching it on he pretty much ran out the house before I could even connect with a single PC.
From then on the troubles started. After I had a lot of drop-out connections from my upstairs office, I used iStumbler on my MacBook Pro and found that signal strength was 50% in the tiny room with the master socket, 25% in the _room_next_door_ where I have a PS3, and upstairs in my study the signal was only 18% and every couple of minutes the connection would completely fail. Incidentally, the Home Hub 3 signal strength is quite a lot _less_ than my old Thompson router that I got from my previous ISP (Be Unlimited).
The problem is obviously that the Hub is too far from where I have my computers. And yet there is no way to move the hub from the Master Socket, and no way for me to move the Master Socket (although if I sacrificed my other phone points and paid some cash then possibly I could have done this). And I don't want to move my office to a poky tiny room next to the front door where the Master is.
With my previous ISP, I had my router in an upstairs bedroom, and got great signal both in the lounge and in my upstairs study. I could even sit in the back garden and use the Internet. And indeed when I run the Home Hub 3 in that same room, I get the same reception (although 5% less than with my previous router).
So at this point I started calling BT Tech Support.
The first call ended in someone telling me they were off to run a "line check" that would apparently not only check my line but also my entire wifi network (!), and they'd call back in 10 mins. They never did. Tech Support, by the way offers no Incident Support number, and seemingly no one ever writes down your issue, so I've had to explain the same problem to every single person I talk to, and face the same instant defences.
The next call was for an hour where the guy very painstakingly made me go to the room with the Master Socket (to get reception), change channel, go upstairs, prove I lost the signal. Despite the fact that I'd tried all channels before, he insisted. Don't worry, he said, I'll fix your problem. He was completely sure that the Hub signal would reach all parts of the house. Ultimately, having failed to find a better channel, he put it back to 11 and said that I should "Wait 24 hours to let the wireless signals _propagate_ round my house, which is very important with a brand new router", which very much sounded like BS to me. After this time there was no change in signal.
The next call to Tech Support resulted in the following possibilities:-
1) Run a big ethernet cable throughout the house from the Hub to my _main_computer (ignoring my other wifi devices I guess).
2) Buy a "wireless booster" (by which I think they meant "range extender"). This support guy very seriously told me to "Get PCWorld to come round your house and work out where to place the device, but don't buy it before you try it because they'll try to sell you it even if it doesn't work". Apart from that hilarity I didn't want a range extender _purely_ because my Hub was forced to be in a stupid place, and I didn't want to spend £60 on it. And the support guy said that BT could not recommend _any_ device or make that would work with their Hub, so it was between me an the PCWorld guy who'd come home with me.
So then I called Customer Services with the reasonable proposition (I thought) to exchange Infinity for DSL. The idea being that the Home Hub 3 worked fine in the bedroom from a telephone extension. I was a new broadband customer so it was still business to them. Customer Support said that I could not cancel the Infinity contract without a penalty. I dread to think what that was because later on they told me the penalty for early termination of a DSL contract is £8 per month left of the contract, and I was here 2 days into am 18 month Infinity contract. I objected, saying that Infinity clearly did not work for my house. They then put me through (as a special treat, it usually costs money) to Home IT, saying that if those guys could not help then they'd waive the charge.
So I talked to Home IT. They had one last suggestion that I already had considered. A Powerline connection from Hub to another wifi router somewhere more central in the house. The problems there are that Powerline bandwidth is highly dependent on your house wiring (and after all the point of Infinity is to get that super fast bandwidth), and that they were suggesting I pay £100 for Powerline, and £60 for another router. And again, there would be no technical support for setting this up. I declined and they said they'd put a "note" on my account telling Customer Services that they agreed that downgrading to DSL was the best solution.
So I called Cust Services again. Explained the entire thing again. Again they said there was _no_way_ to cancel the Infinity contract (not even to change it to DSL) without a large financial penalty. So I told them my other option was to cancel the entire thing because it just didn't work, and I guess that triggered some thought that I probably _could_ just cancel legally, so after talking to their supervisor they came back and set up the DSL alternative for me.
Now I have to wait a week for the DSL to be activated, which hopefully will happen without problem. Aparently I don't need the engineer to come back and "disconnect" Infinity from the Master Socket. And BT don't want my 2 day old Infinity modem back either.
What gets me about the whole thing is that no one ever said "oh yeah, we get this sometimes". I think it would be amazing if every single person who buys Infinity just happens to have their Master Socket either in the same room as all their computer equipment, or close to it, or is happy to accept all their internal phone wiring to be rendered useless just to get a few extra Mb download speed, or is techie enough that they're willing to spend another £200 on additional wireless solutions just to get the signal from their front door to their PC.
Meanwhile to be able to write this, I'm sat next to the Master Socket in a room that is small enough that we've been using it as a very messy storage cupboard. It's not exactly condusive to work.
My Infinity download speed, by the way, varied (when I sat near the Hub to actually get the signal) from 12Mb to 20Mb. DSL speeds were 7 or 8Mb prior to that.Points taken guys!
I wanted to change ISP to BT, and took a few seconds to convince myself that it was worth "going large" with the Infinity package. I knew about the master socket thing. I'd read that some people had got the engineer to move this, which was my initial plan to move it to the lounge. I also read that the Home Hub 3 had "excellent" range, so that seemed fine. I didn't _imagine_ that with a hub in the room with the master socket I'd have no signal at the other end of the house, so I didn't test this. In fact I've never had any problems with wifi signal where my router used to be so I never even investigated signal strength before or even downloaded iStumbler.
The engineer immediately talked me out of moving the socket for reasons mentioned, and said again that the wifi signal strength of the Hub was great and would reach the whole house. The moment he connected up the socket there was just time for me to wifi connect with my laptop in the same room before he said that his work was done and he was off. He _did_ turn up early just before lunch so perhaps that was more on his mind. I had no time to test signal anywhere else in the house before he left. Hence I said "ran off".
Using another router. I didn't try this. The Home Hub has a very ominous red lead connecting it to the Infinity modem. And the red lead comes out a socket marked Infinity rather than the other socket marked ADSL. As such I've assumed that one could only use the Home Hub with the Infinity modem, and not some other DSL modem. Perhaps I was wrong. I'm not that technical about networks and I've also bought into a package by a vendor and so don't really feel like messing around replacing parts of that package.
My house is a medium 4 bed house. The master socket is in a small room next to the front door. My study is in a back bedroom, from where I get 18% signal as reported by iStumbler. The lounge is next door to the master socket room, where I was getting about 25% signal. I also only get a max of 60% signal when I'm touching the Mac to the Hub, so maybe the hub is defective, or the Mac is. No BT tech support guy has raise any sort of eyebrow at these figures, or suggested that either the Mac or the Hub is broken. I also have a MacMini in the office that shows similar signal strength there, and the iPhone won't even see the hub at all from there, but can connect if in the same room as the hub.
But regardless, everything was fine with my old router setup with my old ISP. Except that the 3 year old router seemed to occassionally crash and drop the line. So rather than get tech support from Be Unlimiter, or buy a new router, I though the _easy_ option would be just to move provider to BT and get a fancy new router as part of the deal. Also I've always perhaps nievely thought that if you have BT for phone and broadband then if something goes wrong then they can't tell you it's not their fault. Shrug. If I'd known that I'd have been on the phone to tech support for hours anyway, I'd have just talked to Be in the first place. Now I kind of want things to go back to the state that I actually _had_ internet access in my study, which is why I settled on again the easy option of convincing BT to downgrade me to DSL.
Apart from coming here to vent (apologies), I think it's actually quite an important fact to consider when thinking about Infinity whether moving your hub from a central point in the house to your master socket (usually a point closest the street) will affect your wifi reception throughout the house.
I didn't consider that. And it's caused me two days of frustration. And I'm now sat in a cupboard. -
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Your company has most likely blocked the ports necessary to connect to mail servers outside the corporate network. Shut off WiFi and see if it works. If it does, you'll need to talk to your IT department about it.
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Network signal predominantly: 'Searching...'
My iPhone is a 3GS that's been upgraded to IOS 5.0.1 on November 19th last.
Yesterday I found out how to enable the new integrated Twitter functionality.
I don't know if they are related but my phone has difficulty staying connected with the O2 network. When it does manage to connect the little network connected icon stays at 5 bars (i.e. full strenght) then drops to one bar after about 30 seconds and and reverts back to 'Searching...' message it stays in this state for over 2 minutes before going into the same sequence again. During this time I am unable to make or receive calls or send ot recieve texts (with the exception of iMessages which are transmitted over WiFi).
I contacted O2 to see if there was a local network fault for example a network cell down. There was no reported incident. Also all other phones on the O2 network are working without a problem.
I have on the suggestion of a friendly Apple Service operator replace the SIM card as it was thought that it might have failed. This is have done without any noticable change in the problem, hence the possibility of a faulty SIM is eliminated.
I have tried resetting network connections i.e. Go to Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network Connections. This has not made any difference to the problem.
In its present state the phone is unusable.
I would welcome any suggestion that I might try as my telephone support as expired.
Regards,
CiaranI have this problem too. Phone can't latch to signal while other phones can so I tried restoring my phone. It failed because of unresponsive firmware.
I was able to restore back to 7.1.2 after the phone went fully discharged (I suspect the firmware was reset during the discharge). I got cell service back but after 1 hour, went back to searching. Restored and failed again.
What I learned from this encounter:
If your phone has charge, restore tries will fail since there is power supplied to the baseband/firmware.
Let your phone discharge and charge again to revive the firmware and make the restore push through.
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Loss of carrier signal, unable to get it back until I restart my iPhone 4
I received my unlocked iPhone 4 from the online Apple Store yesterday. Overall, I haven't noticed the death-grip issue. I think.
However, I've seen the following happen twice today while at my office:
- After carrying the phone in my back pocket for some period of time, I take it out only to discover that there is no carrier info available (no "Fido" tag, no signal-strength bars).
- No matter how much I wave the phone around or wait, I never get a signal even where I previously had full-signal strength.
- I look in Settings and the "Carrier" option is no longer there, so I can't even scan for Fido's network.
At this point, I have to restart the iPhone. Once it restarts, everything seems to be normal again. I get a full-strength indicator and the "Carrier" option is now once again available in the Settings menu.
Has this been reported before? An Apple rep installed the microsim card yesterday during activation, so I'm wondering if the SIM card just needs to be re-seated? (I don't have my SIM-eject tool with me at the moment.)
Would appreciate any help with this!I had a similar problem when I was on holiday on Cyprus. The first day I had a connection. The second day, when I turned my iPhone on, I wasn't able to connect to any provider though the providers were listed. I tried several things (reset phone, reset network settings etc.) but nothing worked.
Then suddenly a few days later, my iPhone connected to the local network! The next day I deliberately turned off and on my iPhone again and the problems were back. However, after a few tries manually selecting a provider, I had a connection again. I asked my telephone company in the Netherlands what the problem could be, but they had no answer.
When I returned home, everything worked fine again. I also tested my iPhone in Germany and it worked OK there as well.
So, I don't know what happened on Cyprus and I can't reproduce the problem at home. I thought I share this because I'm still anxious to know what the problem was. -
All Of a Sudden Telephone Interference?
I have a UFO styled Airport Extreme base station linking a Mac PowerBook Pro, a G3 Breadbox, an older Dell PC and via USB, an Epson printer. This system has worked almost flawlessly for nearly two years, but now problems are occurring.
The wireless printer link has failed repeatedly and can no longer be re-established. The printer works fine when hard wired via USB to any of the compurters.
Within the last two months our 2.4gHz cordless telephone has begun interrupting the Airport signal. As soon as the telephone rings in its base or is turned on the Airport signal is lost. The situation is worse with the MBP and the PC. Both are farther from the base station and the phone is usually close to line of sight between either computer and the base station. The Airport link is re-established as soon as the telephone is turned off.
My question is; Could the base station be gradually failing? It was purchased used and I have no idea of its history.My question is; Could the base station be gradually failing? It was purchased used and I have no idea of its history.
It's possible, but most likely the problem is Wi-Fi interference from operating a 2.4 GHz device within range of your 802.11g (also 2.4 GHz) AirPort. Before attempting to replace either the base station or cordless phone, I suggest that you consider changing radio channels on both (if the phone supports this) to the "opposite" ends of 802.11g band: 1 & 11 or 1 & 14 if outside the US.
Note: This issue is NOT unique to the AirPort and can happen to any manufacturer's wireless device operating in the same radio band as the cordless phone.
Your other option is to ditch the 2.4 GHz phone and get one that operates in either the 900 MHz or 5 GHz band ... or, of course, use a corded phone.
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