Cell phone signal booster

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yfz450

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Anyone have a cell phone signal booster / range extender at home? We live out in the sticks and are dropping alot of calls and getting poor reception. Service provider is Verizon.

Anyone have an experience with one? Brand?
 
A buddy of mine has one in his home up north. Expect to spend several hundred dollars if you want a quality piece.
 
I have almost no service at my house with verizon. The guy next door installed a booster system in his polebarn. Works great for him, if I need to use my cell I go to his drive way. He paid over $2,000.00 for it though.
 
I heard AT&T is giving away some kind of boosters to their customers. The thing is supposed to plug into your wireless router so I guess you need AT&T cell phone and AT&T Internet for this to work.

I will try to find a link to the article....
 
You're probably talking about an AT&T MicroCell which connects to your cable modem. Your cellphone talks to the MicroCell over 3G and then transports your call over your internet connection.

I tried this route, but ended up returning it as I had tons of garbled calls. One of my buddies had the same issue & returned his. If they could get the MicroCell to work it would be a decent work-around.
 
mdhmi said:
You're probably talking about an AT&T MicroCell which connects to your cable modem. Your cellphone talks to the MicroCell over 3G and then transports your call over your internet connection.

I tried this route, but ended up returning it as I had tons of garbled calls. One of my buddies had the same issue & returned his. If they could get the MicroCell to work it would be a decent work-around.
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You are correct.

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mdhmi said:
You're probably talking about an AT&T MicroCell which connects to your cable modem. Your cellphone talks to the MicroCell over 3G and then transports your call over your internet connection.

I tried this route, but ended up returning it as I had tons of garbled calls. One of my buddies had the same issue & returned his. If they could get the MicroCell to work it would be a decent work-around.
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You have to put it somewhere that it can get a GPS signal, right?
 
robvas said:
You have to put it somewhere that it can get a GPS signal, right?
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Yes. It had a perfect signal & still ran like shit. You can query for 'microcel garbled' on Google & find a ton of people with the same problem.

When I returned mine the guy at the store pretended he'd never heard of anyone having problems. Such BS.. Everyone I've talked with had problems.
 
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