Cell Signal Booster?

[berfish]

I remodeled my house last year and used steel siding, steel roofing and have high efficiency UV reducing windows. Since then my cell phone signal in my home has got worse.

I have read about Wilson cell phone signal boosters and a couple other brands too. I am just wondering if anyone out there has used anything like these?

The one I was looking at was at Radio Shack and it was Wilson brand and it was about $380. Seems kind of expensive to me but I need phone signal and data communication.

I currently get about one bar and my phone changes from 1x to 3g to no data. Plus I will lose calls in places that have worked in the past in my house. Outside I will usually have 3 bars and a pretty consistent 3g and 4glte. I am about 5 miles from the nearest tower but there are hills all around me.

Any info would be great thanks.

[Whoaru99]

I have a Wilson booster amp setup. It does improve things in fringe areas. The one I have the internal pickup antenna needs to be within reasonable proximity to the phone/hotspot you're using.

Don't use it as much anymore since it's an older model that's just 3G-capable. But, if I know I'll be in the outback I still bring along the setup because phone and or 3G is still better than intermittent nothing.

It's like this Wilson booster.

[Aaron Carrell]

I remodeled my house last year and used steel siding, steel roofing and have high efficiency UV reducing windows. Since then my cell phone signal in my home has got worse.

I have read about Wilson cell phone signal boosters and a couple other brands too. I am just wondering if anyone out there has used anything like these?

The one I was looking at was at Radio Shack and it was Wilson brand and it was about $380. Seems kind of expensive to me but I need phone signal and data communication.

I currently get about one bar and my phone changes from 1x to 3g to no data. Plus I will lose calls in places that have worked in the past in my house. Outside I will usually have 3 bars and a pretty consistent 3g and 4glte. I am about 5 miles from the nearest tower but there are hills all around me.

Any info would be great thanks.

Do you have high speed internet at home? If so, contact your cell provider and tell them you don't get a signal in the interior of your home and you need a cellular hotspot. Sprint uses a device called a Airave and I know the other companies have something similar. It essentially becomes your antenna if you're within range, and it just plugs into your internet router/modem directly so your calls are handled over the internet rather than over the air. Depending on your cell provider, this may even be a free addon/service that they will provide. The only stipulation is that the Airave has a GPS antenna that will need to get a signal, so that antenna usually needs to be near a window. Its just a tiny 1" white box or something along those lines.

Hope this helps!