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Jbird
Explorer
Aug 17, 2020

Wilson/WEboost Sleek Model Model 460007

I used the much older Sleek for many years with good results. Two years ago I bought one of the above "reconditioned". I threw it away.
Now my daughter has bought a new 460007 and it appears to function in a sense-----it makes a signal worse going from -96db to -107 or -84 to-87.
Does anybody out there have one of these that actually works?
  • GordonThree's avatar
    GordonThree
    Explorer
    Aug 18, 2020
    Most modern phones use new voodoo to talk to the tower that boosters haven't caught up with yet.

    Namely SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO. So if your phone has a decent signal, strapping it into a booster will likely make reception worse because the boosters do not support MIMO technology. However if you're on the boundary of a coverage area (say -113 or worse) then a booster will help because the phone has regressed to using a more primitive signal that the booster can understand.

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