[Hidden-tech] cell phone repeater/amplifier needed

Lynn Goodhue LRGoodhue at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 24 22:20:15 EDT 2009


Dear Hidden-Tech Community,

Thank you all for your very helpful comments on my request for information
about amplifying and/or repeating the cell phone signal at my house.  My
service is AT&T, and I don't want to switch at this time for a number of
reasons.  I believe my phone is actually using the Lawton Hill tower
(Verizon?), and the service did improve somewhat when I upgraded to the Fuze
from the old Cingular 8125 -- new SIM, 3G and all. I don't have to worry
about roaming.

Many of you confirmed what I suspected, that extending the signal won't do
much if the signal isn't very good in the first place.  And one of the
locations for my last employer did use a T-Mobile device on the local
network that connected through the firewall to a tower so that there'd be
reception within the building.  It worked pretty well (my AT&T phone worked
fine with it), and it didn't take up too much bandwidth as I had feared,
with 20 employees at the site who were in and out all the time.

Thanks especially to Jim Ussailis, Tom Goldsmith and Matt Lampiasi for your
thorough and informative explanations about the technology.  And special
thanks to Maria Korolov who looked beyond the solution I was looking to
implement and focused on the actual problem I was trying to solve.  I'm
going to see how Google Voice works so maybe I won't need to install any
expensive equipment to get my cell phone to work here.  (Besides, someday
there'll be a tower that will reach me, with Gov. Patrick's technology
initiates, right?  After all, it took only 13 years to get Comcast to extend
cable from the center of Williamsburg out to the Conway town line ;-)

-Lynn Goodhue



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