Today I actually got creative, and used my GPS to mark off where I lost
the signal, and I'll move the transmitter some place else tomorrow, and
see what I get and compare.  The 900 MHz phone like I said never worked
well here either, so I am thinking it has something to do with the house
for either phone.





On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, John Miller wrote:

> I've never seen a setting like that. Mine all work great out of the
> box though my uniden on my private line here is well down on range
> from the panasonics my mother has. Mine will make it to the mailbox
> about 100 feet away, with walls in between where as the panasonic
> base is farther away from the street and I can get 1/4 of a mile away
> and it sounds just as good as close up. I haven't tried any farther.
> IN this neighborhood I'd get lost going that far.
>
> At 07:13 PM 04/04/2006, you wrote:
> >Hi Everyone, I've had this Uniden Phone for a day now, and have mixed
> >opinions about it.  The reason I went with 5.8 GHz is because of what I have
> >read on here and other places with regard to range.  This afternoon I took a
> >walk around the block and didn't notice any real big difference verses my
> >900 MHz phone and I don't know if it is because the walls in my house are
> >really thick or what.  Tomorrow I am planning on trying to test it again
> >with putting the transmitter in the window to see what happens.  When I
> >shoed the phone to my mother we got a call at dinner, and it was in my
> >pocket while I was down stairs, and the audio quality wasn't that great, and
> >again I think that it is because of the thickness of our walls.  I just had
> >my step brother take a quick look in the manual to see if there is any way
> >of increasing the power, but there doesn't appear to be anything in the
> >manual, but what I am wondering on other 5.8 GHz phones are there settings
> >for increasing power from the transmitter?
>