Phonex PX-441 Wireless Jack System for Modems

Manufacturer:	Phonex
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Phonex PX-441 Wireless Jack System for Modems

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Great For Dish Receiver - Caller ID

This is a great inexpensive solution if your satellite receiver is caller id ready and a phone line is not close to your television.

Phonex PX-441 Wireless Jack System for Modems - Phonex

Pretty much does the job.

This device is not perfect. You can't get a perfect dial tone in every situation. But you can alter the envirement and make it flawless.

What I've found is that if there is any power hunger device nearby - computer, lamp, tv, etc - it distorts the signal. However, you only need to worry about proximity to electronics with the reciever, not the base.

Here's my setup: I got Voice over IP, so my phone line goes through my router. I have the base station in my room, and my VoIP phone line goes into the base station. The reciever is in the basement, attached to a power line that comes directly off the circuit breaker so it gets a strong signal. Down there, the phone line conects to all the phones in the house so all the outlets run off voice over IP.

Again - in my situation, the signal is great. Just make sure it will fit yours.

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Extremely poor performer for me

Once connected, this unit resulted in so much static on the line, that my Tivo could not successfully make its nightly call to download new guide information.

After lots of testing, I found that the unit simply would not work unless it was within about 10-15 feet of the base unit. An amazingly short distance for a device such as this.

I then headed down to the best buy and picked up the RCA version of this device and it has worked flawlessly. An interesting note here - both devices appear to be identical as far as their guts are concerned. In fact, the instructions for both items were identical - the exact same words used on every page.

I am not sure why there was such a difference in performance (perhaps I just got one that was off a bit), but I would suggest you think twice on this item. I was able to return it but had to pay all shipping costs - something you don't have to do if you need to return it to the local store.

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