Cell Phone & WeBoost

[ultrarunner]

What antenna did you go with?

I've learned where I have signal and where I don't... and it's different between T-Mobil and Verizon

 

[Xfaxman]

weboost.com/products/home-multiroom

 

[ultrarunner]

weboost.com/products/home-multiroom

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Thank you...

I keep hoping service will improve and it has... for many years there was zero signal and now it is usable at some locations...

Is a product like We Boost also good to boost hotspot?

 

[Wagtail]

For years I had to go to a certain area (the door to the 'entertainment area') or go outside to answer & keep a mobile signal on my mobile phone. I finally bit-the-bullet and had my provider (Telstra) install a repeater on my roof... cost was A$1500 for the unit and installation.

The result was night and day! It covers the entire house, AND the 'upgrade' to a wireless (Telstra) computer modem/antenna was then free (provided and installed) as it would automatically switch to the mobile repeater if I were to ever lose the computer antenna.

I've now given up the landline connection. Yeah, I've been dragged 'kicking and screaming' into the 21st Century.

 

[Xfaxman]

Is a product like We Boost also good to boost hotspot?

I have no experience with that.
Here is some info: https://www.weboost.com/blog/how-to-boost-the-cell-signal-for-a-wifi-hotspot

 

[ultrarunner]

I have no experience with that.
Here is some info: Ultimate Guide to Mobile Hotspots & Hotspot Boosters | weBoost

Thank You again...

 

[lman]

My cell signal is weak and I found that my internet was good enough to use wifi calling on our cell phones. I got internet to my barn so my phone calls are covered. Most phones now are able to use wifi for calling.

 

[ultrarunner]

I have week everything but usable until a plane flies over.

During height of pandemic had best signal... not many flights.

Unfortunately, on flight path for Oakland International and when a call drops always a plane overhead.

I'm basically frugal as in rabbit ears for TV...

Found if I place a Verizon Cell in the dining room chandelier as hot spot I have great WiFi TV and WiFi Internet for the work T-Mobil...

The decades this area was a total dead zone but service improves.

Both my neighbors have given me passwords for their WiFi but no go in the house or anywhere behind my home.

As I spend most non work hours taking care of mom at her house it's DSL there...

On a side note my WA rental did not have cell or Cable or Sat service .. continually spending money cutting trees for tenant Sat service.

So I bit the bullet and commit to 15k expense over 5 years to bring in Comcast and the first renter says take it out we don't want it... I explain I have a contract so for 3 years at $300 a month it was sitting unused in a closet..

Current tenant has full package and pays for all of it...

 

[Xfaxman]

Found if I place a Verizon Cell in the dining room chandelier as hot spot I have great WiFi TV and WiFi Internet for the work T-Mobil...

The weBoost home system would work for that because it is using a cell tower signal.

 

[Xfaxman]

The reason I spent so much money on a booster is because at my age my cell phone is my lifeline.

Last week I was working with this heavy metal frame:

I put a two wheeler under it and took it off of the crane scale. Rolled it back away from the crank up lift and stood the two wheeler up.

As I stepped back I heard it sliding down the handles as the frame fell back pushing the two wheeler into me, knocking me down flat on my back.

Fortunately I did not need to call for help, but I could have if any bones were broken.