| Author | Message | ||
     2008xb12scg |
So Verizon is selling a signal booster for about 250. "it's like having a cel tower in your house" I'm just wondering if anybody has used these. Also it works for all companies, metro, sprint, verizon ect. I would hate to blow that much on something that doesn't work..Signal in my house sucks. | ||
| Froggy |
The Airwave? The way it works is it plugs into your internet router and acts like a short range cell phone tower. Verizon wins as they don't have to deal with managing your signal on their towers, the bandwidth gets used up on your internet providers end, and then Verizon gets to charge you monthly fees on top of it. Verizon gets their cake and can eat it too. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
If it works like the At&t unit, it'll work great. Froggy listed the downside. Btw, I've heard of AT&T customers getting the units for free due to poor signal in an area it shouldn't be. | ||
| Froggy |
I've been trying to get Sprint to get me one for free. Coverage isn't terrible in my house, but my mancave is like a fallout shelter and it would be nice to have a good usable signal. | ||
| 2008xb12scg |
Thaanks for.the info guys. | ||
| Buelet |
We've got the Verizon unit. My wife's work paid for it so we could drop one of the monthly land-lines that her work was also paying for. Our cell coverage at our house is spotty at best but our internet finally rocks. (U-Verse) It works great and for only the one-time cost to buy the unit and no additional monthly charges to use it then we're happy. Only complaint is that it won't "hand off" your call to a tower when you get out of range. So if you're on the phone while you hop in the car and drive away, then you'll drop your call. | ||
| Road_thing |
ATT offered us their version for free, but I haven't picked it up yet. rt | ||
| 2008xb12scg |
Buelet I didn't know that part. Well I called to see how much I would save to drop my land line and It puts me out of the "triple play" package and really doesn't save any thing. That was my plan, to buy this thing and stop the land line. I still may look at this as most of my calls are cel and I end up telling people I'll call back from the house phone. | ||
| Bigblock |
I shared a cell booster with my roommate at my last house. It worked via an antenna on a long cable that you positioned for best signal, not over the internet. It was a third party device(not through the cell provider) It worked fairly well, but at times the signal was poor even on our roof, and at those times it would drop a call, but rarely. As long as the device had cell signal, it worked great. I don't remember the model or brand, it wasn't mine. | ||
| Panhead_dan |
Signal booster shmignal booster. I want a cell phone jammer! | ||
| Froggy |
http://www.phonejammer.com/product.php?productid=1 6139&cat=0&bestseller=Y | ||
| Krassh |
My sister has the one you are talking about from verizon. She loves hers had no signal in house before. Told her to try and get somebody in retentions (threaten to cancel) and she got it for either $49 or $99 cannot remember which. I believe it only works on verizon phones. I used to work sprint, their airrave cost less but you had to add each phone for x amount of money where verizon is not restricted like that. The cool thing is I believe the verizon one is like sprint in that any calls through it do not come off your minutes. They are technically called femtocells and all the carriers should have them in some form or another. |
