Telephone Recommendation

Kevin Taylor · Kevin Taylor's Garage

Can anyone please recommend a good cordless telephone for the home.
Would like to have one with two handsets.

Thanks K.T.
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RickM · RickM's Garage

I've had very good luck with the Uniden brand. Although my current technology is @ 900mhz every phone has fared very well. In fact I wish they'd break so I could go with the newer stuff

I purchased them all from Costco.

smoak · smoak's Garage

I have literally had them all over the years. Bottom line, they uniformally SUCK. Seems like they could get the technology right after all these years. My last set (two handsets and digital answering machine) is the 5.4ghrtz Uniden. It has held up for over a year now. With the ans. machine mine was like 179 back a year ago. I would recommend it.

Rot 911 · 01-11-2005, 07:43 AM

I've been real happy with the Unidens. We have a two phone set that has a base station in the kitchen and the other phone just sits in a charger in the garage and is wireless. Our garage is detached and sits at least 100 feet from the house. Reception is good, but not great. What I like is that it also has a built in intercom feature so my wife can buzz me while I am working in the garage and ask me those oh so important questions like "What are you doing?"

sixbanger · 01-11-2005, 10:03 AM

I like the Uniden 2.4GHz

campbellcj · 01-11-2005, 10:12 PM

We also have the Uniden 5.8GHz and it's the best cordless we've had thus far. (Replaced a Siemens system that was horrendously unreliable.) This one supports two lines and up to 10 handsets. The speakerphone built into each handset is a nice gizmo.

mikester · 01-11-2005, 10:37 PM

If you have a Wireless network in your home you'll want to be sure that you choose a telephone that is on a different Hz. That is to say that if you have a 802.11b or 802.11g which run on 2.4Ghz be sure that your phones are eigher 900Mhz or 5Ghz. If your network is 802.11a which runs on 5Ghz get a phone that is not on that spectrum. The likelyhood of interference from the similar spectrum systems is there. In your phone it could show up as unreliability and in your network it could show up as lost packets.

Just a suggestion.

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

I agree with Mike on the frequency. I have a Toshiba and it works great. I prefer phones that are "larger" rather than smaller. The audio part should match up well with the ear, so you position it easily. The smaller phones do not seem to easily position at the ear.

campbellcj · 01-12-2005, 10:31 PM

Good point Mike; I specifically went to the 5.8 as our wireless net and even the microwave farked up the old 2.4 phone sometimes. (And I suspect the phone farked up the network too although that was less noticable.)

Halm · 01-13-2005, 04:21 AM

We are home office users and have the Panasonoc KX-TG2740 system. It is their 2-line unit but they also offer it as a single line. It is by far the best system we have had including Uniden and Siemens. One base station and 4 phones throughout the house with great signal. Each phone has a good built-in speaker phone, and the base unit has a digital answering machine with 3 seperate mailboxes.

It is 2.4 GHz and in the same room with our wireless access point and we have never had any problems with interference, as far as I know.