Cordless home phones always poor?

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I hope this is in the right section, but I thought its closest, so why not?

Right, I have had a number of different cordless phones in my home, from various makers, such as BT, Motorola, Binatone, and in fact 3 different BT ones and two different Binatone ones, and they all have issues with the volume constantly going up and down, as if the signal comes and goes, and it makes having any sort of conversatiion, utterly impossible.

When I use a corded phone however, its flawless.

This has always been the case ever since we moved here.

This morning, I have been looking for any possible reasons for this, but I have not found anything.

All wireless devices have been turned off, including the PCs and the Router, we have also turnedoff the TV, MediaCenter and all the bits there, like the xbox, DVD player, Speaker setup and so on, and we have even gone as far as to switch the entire house electric supply of just to see if we can get to the bottom of it, but thats not made any difference either?

Cordless are useless and corded are flawless.

Does anyone know of anything that could be to blame for this?

All of these sets of cordless phones work just great for anyone else who tries them, but not for us.

Please help!!
 
Have 3 Panasonic ones here also, have been fine. Both our parents have since gone out and bought Panny phones also, best they've had apparently.
 
what do i need if I have a master socket under the stairs and one socket in the living room but nowhere else in the house?

Is there a sort of master cordless phone unit that can plug into the master socket downstairs and then satellite phones with charging docks that I can put anywhere around the house?

Looks like most 'docking stations' for cordless phones need a direct connection to the phone line....
 
You can purchase multi handset packs where you have one master base station that all the handsets connect to (all the other handsets have a charging station and only need to be connected to the nearest plug socket).
 
I have this exact set at home.

The base unit shown on the left is the "master", and plugs into the phone socket (either the master, or an extension from it), the rest of the bases are purely charging units.


If you've got ADSL, then the best thing to do is place your master phone base + router directly connected to it, and remove any other internal extension (as external extensions can reduce your ADSL sync speed)
 
Confused said:
I have this exact set at home.

The base unit shown on the left is the "master", and plugs into the phone socket (either the master, or an extension from it), the rest of the bases are purely charging units.


If you've got ADSL, then the best thing to do is place your master phone base + router directly connected to it, and remove any other internal extension (as external extensions can reduce your ADSL sync speed)
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interesting, seems to be a lot of complaints about sound quality with that model?

What about the wifi panasonic one? I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to just buy one of these Panasonic KX-PRW120E and then just stick it under the stairs and let it route all house calls to my mobiles when I'm at home and on the network? Saves the need to have slave units around the house....
 
demonix said:
Panasonic cordless phones have an eco mode as well.
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Thanks for heads up on that, I have also today discovered some Philips phones have ECO DECT also. For a long time Siemans Gigaset where the only ones however.

You don't happen to own a Panasonic ECO DECT phone do you, have a technical question about dialing tone if you did.
 
I work in the telecoms industry and whenever a customer wants to add an analogue cordless phone to their setup we always suggest Siemens Gigasets. By far and away the best cordless handsets you can get.
 
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