5/3     Every cordless phone I buy eventually get a lot of static and becomes
        unusable.  I've gone from x00 mhz to 2.4 ghz.  Still eventually people
        get the high frequency phones and it becomes a dud.  I'm thinking of
        going back to the wired phones.  My problem is that I only have one
        line.  If I plug two or three phones in different rooms into that same
        line I get a lot of static also.  Is there a standard solution to
        this problem?  How can I boost the signal somehow.  Thanks.
        \_ I have a wired phone and a cordless. For long or personal
           conversations, it's way better. You may have forgotten how clear
           a phone call can be without cordless transmission. --aaron
        \_ Stop buying cheap phones or else using them so hard? I don't have
           this problem. --dim
        \_ Buy a Panasonic 900MHz, and when you hear static, press the pad
           to the left to change the channel.
        \_ For wired phones, sometimes the problem is just a bad cord between
           the phone jack and the phone.  I once had a problem where the static
           became so bad that my modem wouldn't connect.  Then the PacBell guy
           replaced two cords in my house, and the problem was solved.  -- yuen
        \_ back when my friend lived in berkeley (2415 College) the
           telephone wires were so bad in his building that talkign on his
           landline was barely audible with all the static
        \_ Have you tried replacing the batteries in the handset?  They don't
           recharge well after a while and you get lots of static.