Interference Between Wireless Phones and Baby Monitors
Every wireless gadget with wireless functionality tends to have unwanted effects on other devices which is called interference problem. These problems may prevent devices to function properly. Interference can distort the sound or video or you can make some static sounds.
One of the device pair that usually interfere each other is baby monitors and wireless phones. Of course we cannot stop using our wireless phones to use the baby monitor or vice versa.
So what can we do to solve these interference problems between baby monitors and phones?
How wireless interference can affect my baby monitor?
Interference usually may appear in the form static sounds, unwanted sounds from another houses or poor picture if your baby monitor has also video monitoring feature such as Infant optics video baby monitor or Motorola MBP33. Your baby monitor could also pick up your neighbor's phone calls or sound from their baby monitors. That is they may also hear your phone calls or sounds from your nursery which is a privacy problem.
How to solve your wireless interference problem
Here are some tips to minimize this kind of interference between these wireless gadgets.
One of the device pair that usually interfere each other is baby monitors and wireless phones. Of course we cannot stop using our wireless phones to use the baby monitor or vice versa.
So what can we do to solve these interference problems between baby monitors and phones?
How wireless interference can affect my baby monitor?
Interference usually may appear in the form static sounds, unwanted sounds from another houses or poor picture if your baby monitor has also video monitoring feature such as Infant optics video baby monitor or Motorola MBP33. Your baby monitor could also pick up your neighbor's phone calls or sound from their baby monitors. That is they may also hear your phone calls or sounds from your nursery which is a privacy problem.
How to solve your wireless interference problem
Here are some tips to minimize this kind of interference between these wireless gadgets.
- Firstly, if you do not have a baby monitor yet, invest in a baby monitor that works on a different frequency band from your wireless phone and your other wireless gadgets.
- Adjust the channel. Most wireless products can be adjusted to use different channels to solve interference problems. If your baby monitor or phone has a feature of changing the operating frequency, try this feature to solve your interference problem.
- Try to find a wireless phone that uses the 5.8 GHz 900 MHz or 1.9 GHz band which is less common. Most of new cordless phones use the 5.8 GHz frequency band and luckily there are no video baby monitors that use this frequency presently.
- Avoid analog baby monitors. Digital baby monitors encode and encrypt the data and use technologies to reduce the risk of inference and miss reception. With encryption feature even your neighbors receive the signal; they can’t hear the sound from your house.
- Place and keep your baby monitor and wireless phone as far away as possible from each other.
- If you are about to buy a cordless phone or baby monitor make sure that you can return the product in case of a interference problem that cannot be fixed.