Friday, 30 October 2009

Femtocell trial: first impressions

Well, it works, I can make calls in my home and both mobile phones have been registered - although it took a couple of calls to get that sorted out. And I never received my confirmation SMS...

But there is one very worrying development. When my femtocell is on, my WiFi network does not work properly. The signal becomes very weak and I can't always get on the Internet. This is resolved by unplugging the femtocell...

So what's at fault here? My WiFi network, or the femtocell? I did assume the two would not interfere with one another but this is too much of a coincidence to ignore. What can I do? I have no control over where they are located as the broadband router has to be connected to both...

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2 comments:

Siddharth said...

Very informative blog for telecom folks.

Zach Salinas said...

Interference possibility is very little between 2 technologies, I would simply advise you to change location of one of your devices to be sure.