Home based cell booster
I looked but haven't seen this issue discussed. Looking at adding a cell booster. They seemm to be a little pricey. Ran across a Weboost 4gHome, About 300.00. Only has a flat antenna so not good ...
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Curly2001 wrote:
We are going to be on the coast of Oregon pretty soon this year and cell phone coverage is terrible there, at least for us on Verizon. Would a cell booster be of any benefit there for us?
Thanks,
Curly
If you have a signal, just not a good one. A booster MAY help. (Some hints below) If you have NO signal. even when standing on the roof of the RV.. Forget it.
The hints.
Antennas come in two basic types. One is an "omni" (Sticks up like a finger) now a good Omni may have some "Gain" (Gain means increased range) But a good DIRECTIONAL antenna will have more gain in one direction. It will also ignore noise from off to the side or rear to some extent.. HOWEVER YOU HAVE TO AIM IT.. .
HEIGHT (up to a point) is MIGHT.. if you have one bar standing on the ground you might well have 2 or 3 standing on the roof. and an antenna say 20 or 25 feet up a flagpole may well have more still. Up to likely about 50-100 feet then the line loss in the coax beconmes an issuem but you are not going to have that kind of a mast (25 feet is about the limit for push up poles. aka flag poles)
