when my house phone rings I lose internet connection

Do you have other people in the house?

Once at my old house my brother had installed a phone secretly in his room and didn't let anyone know. So every time the phone rang, the internet would die. It took a bit to figure out..

Your cordless phone is on the same frequency your wireless router is on.

Is your phone a cordless? The 2.4Ghz frequency on some cordless phones is the same as that used by wireless routers.

no.

sadly I live alone. but I have company over all the time.

no secret phones here. all my phone lines have the filter thingy connected

hmm.

the phone in question is not cordless.

but it did at one time have a companion cordless phone. it was one of those answering machine/wired phone/cordless phone setups. but I lost the cordless phone. I can't remember if the phone line had to be plugged into the cordless phone charger or not.

That is still cordless. And that is also your problem. Get a simple land line phone. Problem solved.

If you're male, the government may think you're a drug dealer/terrorist.

If you're female, you may be bugged by a stalker.

BINGO Go into your router and change the channel that it uses. Pretty simple really. Yes this can be done.

get off dial up. seriously.

I had to change the channel from 1 to 6 before my phone stopped interfering with it.

yep you're right.

I just switched it out with another phone. called it on my cell and the internet stayed connected.

I know this turned out to be a simple and petty problem ; I feel kind of dumb.

thanks for your help.

I have an upper mid level DSL service.

You have spookables in your house then

GLP people are so smart and helpful. :-)

ok.

how do I do that?

I dont want to lost my answering machine.

GLP Helpline,

how can we be of service today?

Move LOL jk

Technical help is great but the prophecy info. sucks!!!

Are you using the DSL providers router? Or your own?

my own.

I'm at the router manager webpage and see where to change the channel.

I guess I should just change the channel and phone my house until I find one that works?

Have you filtered the router input? Or does it have one built in?

Call the phone company. This happened to me when the government bugged my internet and the phone company made them stop.

Even if you are not using a cordless phone, it you have a cordless phone base connected somewhere in your home, it is probably broadcasting on the same frequency as your wireless router.

Check the manual for your router for instructions on changing your router's frequency. Some companies also have a 24 hour help line that can walk you through the process. I had the same problem up until today. I already knew how to change the frequency, but I did not realize this was the problem until I read this blog.

this usually happens when people hook up phone line into the network connection of computer. if your using dsl sound like you have it hook up wrong or you have a bad filter going to your computer.

Make sure you have a phone filter installed.