watsonpj
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 10:13 AM |
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phone boosters
anyone used one of these
linky
do they work/are they any good?
Poor coverage in our offices for Vodafone and o2
Pete
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gremlin1234
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 11:07 AM |
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quote:
do they work/are they any good?
are they legal?
http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/phone/mobile-phones/coverage/mobile-repeaters/
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leon51274
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 11:23 AM |
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Vodafone sell one called suresignal, cost about £100 but works a treat.
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watsonpj
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 11:45 AM |
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Thanks Gremlin hadn't seen anything about legality.
I'll stick with the Vodafone one then.
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nick205
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 12:07 PM |
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The Vodafone Sure Signal things work, but if you have poor network coverage they don't fix it!
Another network is better, but then many piggyback on O2 and Vodafone anyway.
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 12:17 PM |
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I apparently have a faraday cage for a house - outside - full 4G. Walk through the door and stand anywhere more than 3ft from a window and I get 1 bar
"H" and sometimes that vanishes.
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v8kid
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 12:23 PM |
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From the website Vodafone Sure Signal requires a 1Mb upload speed broadband to operate.
Self defeating really as remote areas that have poor phone signals tend to have miles of copper phone lines and hence much less than 1Mb upload
speed.
The device referred to by the OP is a signal booster and works on a different principal. IIRC its only illegal to boost on broadcast and not receive
so perhaps that makes it half legal 
I would like to know if these things work 'cos that's the position I and many other country dwellers are in. i.e. rubbish
"broadband" and poor phone signal.
Cheers!
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
chainsaw
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v8kid
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 12:24 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coyoteboy
I apparently have a faraday cage for a house - outside - full 4G. Walk through the door and stand anywhere more than 3ft from a window and I get 1 bar
"H" and sometimes that vanishes.
Foil backed plasterboard?
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
chainsaw
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 02:19 PM |
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It's possible, the owners did completely re-vamp the house before I moved in but I've never noticed any remnants while drilling the walls.
Either way it's a bloody nightmare! Also wondered if the blocks used for the internal wall faces were high metallic content (old 30's
block and brick construction).
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theduck
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 03:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by v8kid
From the website Vodafone Sure Signal requires a 1Mb upload speed broadband to operate.
Self defeating really as remote areas that have poor phone signals tend to have miles of copper phone lines and hence much less than 1Mb upload
speed.
The device referred to by the OP is a signal booster and works on a different principal. IIRC its only illegal to boost on broadcast and not receive
so perhaps that makes it half legal
I would like to know if these things work 'cos that's the position I and many other country dwellers are in. i.e. rubbish
"broadband" and poor phone signal.
Cheers!
I'm in birmngham on the fastest connection I can get and cant get better than 0.2mb upload!
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watsonpj
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 04:02 PM |
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I'm in a little village outside Cambridge and I get 38m down and 5m up with virgin fibre so I'll try the Vodafone thing.
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leon51274
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| posted on 13/10/15 at 04:39 PM |
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I get 4down and 0.34up and the sure signal still gives me full reception.
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