This phone sometimes drops out even if you are standing 2 feet from the base station. We had another cordless phone that never did this in the same place, same room, same house.For what this system costs, it is an outrage. Luckily, this was borrowed from a relative. If I had bought this, it would go back to the store the very next day.It will be working okay, say, in the next room, and then spontaneously break up, drop out for 10 seconds at a time and then come back. And forget using it 2 or 3 rooms away. It is unusable at that distance.In fact, with all the chattery drop-out behavior, it's unusable, period.