Unbelievable.I have been looking for a cell phone booster for over two years. I finally decided to go with this model based upon ratings and I am amazed at how much of a difference this Has made. I bought those because the steel garage I built is a functional Faraday cage blocking 99% of all outside signals. Which is great for my ham radio operations but I wanted to get cell phone signal for text messages and phone calls. Within five minutes of connecting this system I had Signal reception at least as good as the tower near my home – 750 miles away – and couldn’t be happier with the signal throughput.
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Seemed to work okay. I’m trying to get signal into a large steel garage which is effectively a Faraday cage. Once the rollup and entry doors are closed I get zero cell signal, not even text.
I hooked this system up per instructions. I normally get 3 bars, LTE outside the building. Power light remains red indicating interference.
How can there be interference if the building blocks all cell signals?
I tried moving it around inside, change the orientation of the antenna, height from floor, no help, no change.
MOSTLY I’d get 3 or 4 bars with LTE signal, but a LOT of reduced throughput to 2 bars and 3G, highly variable, inconsistent throughput, freezing. Elevated the antenna, extended to as full a distance away from the receiver as possible, still have that one red light and the aforementioned problems.
Main problem is, I’m only at the farm maybe 4 or 5 nights every few months, I had more pressing issues/repairs/construction details ongoing to spend much more time troubleshooting something which, if this has passed IEEE level scrutiny, should just be plug and play with no futzing around with height, position, etc.
Going to return it as I can’t possibly figure out how to make this work properly now when I’m 750 miles away from where I need it to work as advertised when I hook it up.
My early reports and irrational exuberance were highly overrated and premature.
Hope no one used my report to make a decision to buy this somewhat dubiously effective piece of hardware.
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