GSM Boosters

[454697819]

Can anyone techno advise me

I live in the country and have 1-2 bar of signal outside at the end of my drive about 20m away from the house, in the house I have Nada zilch, I am on three.

Catherine is on 02 and has one bar in the house in places and 2-3 outside.

I would quite like to ditch BT and use a GSM booster to allow me signal in the house.

Can anyone tell me what I might need, from the research I have found the kit will be about £300?

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

Alex

[hindle8907]

I am on three.



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[tigersaw]

I'm also on three, in one of their upgraded max coverage locations. I still have to go upstairs to get a signal.

[TSM]

its a catch22

GSM Frequencies
O2/Voda/Three = 900Mhz
Orange/T-Mobile = 1800Mhz

3G UTMS etc..
2-2.1Ghz

So you need to make sure that you get the correct booster for what you want.
Other choice is if you moved to voda and have a internet service at home they now have femtocell for homes to give full coverage around your house, its basicly a small mobile transmitter for your house, a small box about the size of a router.

[Stu]

Other choice is if you moved to voda and have a internet service at home they now have femtocell for homes to give full coverage around your house, its basicly a small mobile transmitter for your house, a small box about the size of a router.
Based on Luckypants recommendation , I recommended that solution for my office - works well apart from the boss found out that his Blackberry curve is not 3G, so it doesn't help him at all. ](*,)

[TSM]

Based on Luckypants recommendation , I recommended that solution for my office - works well apart from the boss found out that his Blackberry curve is not 3G, so it doesn't help him at all. ](*,)
Your fault then...
Clearly you should have checked all that first.
The new curve will support 3G.

[Luckypants]

Other choice is if you moved to voda and have a internet service at home they now have femtocell for homes to give full coverage around your house, its basicly a small mobile transmitter for your house, a small box about the size of a router.

Get both of you onto vodaphone with a 3G phone, get one of the femtocell dooffers like I have, job jobbed. The femtocell gizmo is now marketed as 'Sure Signal' and you can get them for free on certain contracts http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=templateCClamp&pageID=PPP_0161

It is ace, with a full 3G signal throughout the house. All my mates who are on Voda are registered to my device and can use their smart phones here where there is no signal in the village at all. :smt023

[Stu]

Get both of you onto vodaphone with a 3G phone, get one of the femtocell dooffers like I have, job jobbed. The femtocell gizmo is now marketed as 'Sure Signal' and you can get them for free on certain contracts http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=templateCClamp&pageID=PPP_0161

It is ace, with a full 3G signal throughout the house. All my mates who are on Voda are registered to my device and can use their smart phones here where there is no signal in the village at all. :smt023
But his whole reason d'etre is to get rid of BT. So unless he get's his broadband from Virgin (unlikely in the countryside) it's a non starter ;)

[454697819]

hindle8907 - 3 have been fine for me for 7 or 8 years now, the coverage is way better around here (in general) than some others.

TSM - Thanks, thats v useful info, interestingly 3 use the other networks for voice and only 3G signal for 3G applications as I understand it, meaning I could get a 900Mhz booster and piggy back of 02!

Stu - I will still require broadband, but this may well be though sky in place of BT as I then wouldnt need a phone package as i could use my mobile in the house.. Hazaaah!

will do some looking into.

Cheers

Alex

[Stu]

Sky provides Broadband through a landline, also the Sky contract demands that your sky box is attched to a landline (either BT or Sky) so are you getting your landline from Sky?
or trying to do without a landline? :???:

[454697819]

Sky provides Broadband through a landline, also the Sky contract demands that your sky box is attched to a landline (either BT or Sky) so are you getting your landline from Sky?
or trying to do without a landline? :???:

I don't mind having a land line for sky purposes, and yes that will be though sky, what I have a problem with is I need a mobile phone, but I cant use it at home, so I end up with a large BT bill at the end of every month and hundreds of left over free minutes on my phone.

If this vodaphone thing works then I can not have a call package on the land line, use it purely for data and use the mobile for calls.

[Luckypants]

Sky provides Broadband through a landline, also the Sky contract demands that your sky box is attched to a landline (either BT or Sky) so are you getting your landline from Sky?
or trying to do without a landline? :???:

How else will the OP get broadband Stu? If they are struggling to make voice calls in their location, they sure as hell won't be able to make data calls :D. If they can get a data only line through Sky that sounds like a cheap way to do this. I can certainly say that my phone bill has gone a lot now that I am able to use my mobile.

Numbers - the vodafone thing works, sounds like it may be what you need.

[tigersaw]

I thought 3 used 3G for voice as well, with a fallback to 2G where reception was poor. I read somewhere that 3 got shirty with people who were engineering their phones not to use 3G since 2G sounds clearer.
You certainly cant put a 3 sim into a 2G phone

[454697819]

How else will the OP get broadband Stu? If they are struggling to make voice calls in their location, they sure as hell won't be able to make data calls :D. If they can get a data only line through Sky that sounds like a cheap way to do this. I can certainly say that my phone bill has gone a lot now that I am able to use my mobile.

Numbers - the vodafone thing works, sounds like it may be what you need.

Great.. thanks for the advice, its just such a Real bitch I'm tied into 3 for a whole another year.:-( still might be able to drop down tarrifs and leave it sat?