4G mobile phone signal booster

[BotusBuild]

We have a weak mobile phone signal inside the house, likely to do with the concrete walls and 3G glazing.

 

Im thinking of fitting a signal booster, something like this:

 

Anyone used anything like this or something similar that they would recommend?

[SteamyTea]

Never tried one, but two things.

Are the legal, seem to remember than some are not.

Do they do a 5G version, 4G is to 2010s.

 

[ProDave]

Not enough information.  Need a link, not a picture.

 

But probably useless at that price.

 

Do you have decent broadband?  If so you only need a phone and service provider that supports wifi calling when at home.

 

If looking for 4G or 5G broadband, you need a router that has an external aerial that plugs into the router.  THAT is not that aerial.

[BotusBuild]

5G vs 4G. As your know @SteamyTea, in Kernow 5G is a rare beast, often only to be found wondering around Truro and maybe some other larger towns in the county. Likelihood of us getting 5G where we are I suspect is very low. So, paying for something we're unlikely to get is pointless IMHO.

 

@ProDave, Yes, we do wifi calling in the house. I am planning for that next broadband and/or power outage that leaves us dependent on a mobile signal. This is the link to that above picture - https://ebay.us/m/TKwM6Y

 

[SteamyTea]

2 minutes ago, BotusBuild said:

As your know @SteamyTea, in Kernow 5G is a rare beast

There is a 5G mast 200 metres from my house.

I must go down to Goonhilly and Poldhu, the spiritual home of radio, and see if there is still no signal.

[dpmiller]

that's just an external antenna. You'll need the booster and it's internal antenna too?

[JohnMo]

2 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

Are the legal,

Remember reading something a while ago, lots of rules and limited components approved. £18 sounds like a non approved thing

 

Just found the thing I read

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/using-a-repeater-to-improve-indoor-mobile-phone-signal

[BotusBuild]

Seems you have to spend several hundred pounds. Hey ho.

 

Back to my ToDo list 🙂 and stop procrastinating

[SteamyTea]

17 minutes ago, BotusBuild said:

Seems you have to spend several hundred pounds

Try putting a cheap phone up as high as possible and see what happens.

Or you could play about with an old satellite dish and see if you can get a stronger signal.

When I was at the college, I managed to get onto the university network that way, and I was about a third of a mile away.

Edited 21 hours ago by SteamyTea

[Big Jimbo]

Because i had an O2 business account, they gave me a booster. They gave up supporting it a few months ago. Wi-fi calling only now, and that's shite.

[-rick-]

Before looking for boosters, try out the other networks. Theres only 3 physical networks now so not a huge task.

[Conor]

You just need WiFi. We've NO signal in our basement, very intermittent on the ground floor. No issues with WiFi calling enabled.

[BotusBuild]

50 minutes ago, -rick- said:

Before looking for boosters, try out the other networks. Theres only 3 physical networks now so not a huge task.

We have 🙂 They're all sh1te 😉

[BotusBuild]

16 minutes ago, Conor said:

You just need WiFi. We've NO signal in our basement, very intermittent on the ground floor. No issues with WiFi calling enabled.

I do. SWMBO's phone doesn't!! I know, I was gobsmacked.

 

But this is all about when the WiFi has failed for some reason and we are reliant on just the mobile signal.