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From: Shawn Nunley <shawn@ka>
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Subject: Re: Help Needed With AT&T Portable Phone
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Date: 22 Aug 90 22:17:49 GMT
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In article <11102@accuvax.nwu.edu> irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe)
writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 583, Message 5 of 11

>In <11015@accuvax.nwu.edu> john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:

>>BTW, 25-30 feet is about all you can expect from a cordless phone in
>>an electrically hostile environment, such as the one I have here.

>He doesn't know how lucky he is, or how bad Panasonic cordless phones
>can be despite the quality of their other phone equipment.  Mine
>starts becoming a little noisy at five feet and is about as noisy as
>it can be and still be usable at fifteen feet.  My AT&T oordless
>phone, on the other hand, probably can go twenty-five feet or more
>(but not very much more).

I suspect that either the quality of cordless phones is on the rise,
or that these folks have purchased defective phones. I purchased a
Sony, tne channel cordless that performs very well in an electrically
hostile environment. By very well, I mean that I can have a mostly
noise-free conversation as far away as three houses down and across
the street! That is well over 300 feet from the base station. In
addition, the Sony has a stand-by battery life of seven days, twelve
hours of continuous talking. When I am using my computer (a large
beast of power cosumption), I notice no degredation in quality
whatsoever. In fact, nothing in my house seems to affect the quality
of sound at all.


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