I live in an area where a ton of construction is going on, and multi-story buildings all around me wound up blocking almost all of my t-mobile cell signal. So for some time I tackled this problem the good ‘ol american way… by just grumbling about it.
Last week we mentioned the problem to T-mobile and they asked a few questions, then said they’d send a booster over to fix the signal. I’ve worked with some of these boosters before and they haven’t worked well at all, but since this was offered for free I figured why not give it a try.
It came in yesterday and installed it today. You put the “receiver” antenna box in the strongest signal part of your house (which is a room on the third floor), and turn it on. This box then communicates wirelessly to the other “hotspot” box, which you position as far away from the receiver box as you can (first floor, where the signal has been non-existent).
How’s it work? Amazingly. Now have full bars in every part of my house.
I don’t know if the other cell providers do a similar service, but it’s worth asking if you have a similar situation to mine. This technology has definitely improved since the last time I tried it some years back.
