Phone signal booster

[ShiftZZ]

Is it possible to boost the signal to a mobile at a house... A house we are lookingat has a low 5g signal indoors, but outside the signal is stronger, is it possible to boost the signal?

 

[AndyPK]

Legally? No afaik……

(You could fit an external aerial and connect it to your indoor compatible WiFi router….)

 

[ShiftZZ]

I was thinking of something like this.

Amazon.co.uk

 

[Lenny HB]

There are boosters avalible but as Andy says not legal, most of them are for the American frequencies which are different to Europe.

 

[Jabstatt]

Some service providers used to offer a signal booster.
I’m overseas right now but one of the companies that sells Poynting antennas I think sells mobile boosters.

Good luck. Very interested in the outcome.

Tony

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[Lenny HB]

I was thinking of something like this.

Amazon.co.uk

That won't give you a phone signal just data and needs to be connected to a MiFi or router.
If going that route look at the Solwise site they sell Poynting aerials which are very good.

 

[Jabstatt]

Are you looking at data or voice?

Data, yes, an external directional aerial pointed at the mast from Solwise.
Exactly what I use at home.

Thought you meant voice!

Tony

 

[Verteuil Man]

We had phone signal boosters at our Taunton office as the signal was very poor. Nothing illegal about the boosters we had.
We also installed speed cameras which connected vis data. Over a 15 km stretch they had different providers and boosters.
It might be better to look for amplifier instead of booster. This is the sort of thing we had. There could be 5G ones.

GSM Mobile Phone Repeater for Home Nikrans LCD-300 in the UK

Boost GSM signal strength in the UK with the Nikrans LCD-300 repeater. CE & RoHS certified, covers up to 300 m2. Easy setup. Order now for enhanced connectivity!

www.mobile-signal-boosters.shop

 

[DavidG58]

Can you not use WiFi calling , I thought that made the call via internet

But I might be wrong I am sometimes

 

[Coolcats]

Is it possible to boost the signal to a mobile at a house... A house we are lookingat has a low 5g signal indoors, but outside the signal is stronger, is it possible to boost the signal?

Many use a teltonik Rut on a Motorhome there is no reason why you wouldn’t use one at home, just put it in a waterproof enclosure and run a lan cable to the house. You could then use a mesh wifi 6/7 around your property and make wifi calls.

I’m sure you will get a dozen answers along this theme.

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[Coolcats]

Can you not use WiFi calling , I thought that made the call via internet

But I might be wrong I am sometimes

Correct I do it all the time

 

[Lenny HB]

We had phone signal boosters at our Taunton office as the signal was very poor. Nothing illegal about the boosters we had.
We also installed speed cameras which connected vis data. Over a 15 km stretch they had different providers and boosters.
It might be better to look for amplifier instead of booster. This is the sort of thing we had. There could be 5G ones.

GSM Mobile Phone Repeater for Home Nikrans LCD-300 in the UK

Boost GSM signal strength in the UK with the Nikrans LCD-300 repeater. CE & RoHS certified, covers up to 300 m2. Easy setup. Order now for enhanced connectivity!

www.mobile-signal-boosters.shop

That is only single band on the 800mhz bandwidth a lot of cell masts don't use that bandwidth tends to be used in rural areas.

 

[Coolcats]

There are boosters avalible but as Andy says not legal, most of them are for the American frequencies which are different to Europe.

Statement: Mobile phone repeaters

We have decided to extend the range of static indoor repeaters available for people to buy and install themselves without a licence.

www.ofcom.org.uk

 

[yorkiebar]

There are UK legal boosters available but there are also lots of illegal ones too!

Using a repeater to improve your indoor mobile phone signal

Poor or no indoor mobile signal? A repeater could help you get better coverage.

www.ofcom.org.uk

 

[Coolcats]

We had phone signal boosters at our Taunton office as the signal was very poor. Nothing illegal about the boosters we had.
We also installed speed cameras which connected vis data. Over a 15 km stretch they had different providers and boosters.
It might be better to look for amplifier instead of booster. This is the sort of thing we had. There could be 5G ones.

GSM Mobile Phone Repeater for Home Nikrans LCD-300 in the UK

Boost GSM signal strength in the UK with the Nikrans LCD-300 repeater. CE & RoHS certified, covers up to 300 m2. Easy setup. Order now for enhanced connectivity!

www.mobile-signal-boosters.shop

Your company probably had a license Ofcom have new rulings and as per my previous post.

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[dunnah01]

What is this 5G you talk of

 

[Lenny HB]

What is this 5G you talk of

That thing you get all over France & Spain even in the middle of nowhere but flipping hard to find in the UK.

 

[matbic]

We also live in a house with almost no mobile phone signal. In the past trying to boost this signal directly has not worked for us. It is difficult/impossible find a booster that works with the correct frequencies. Then if you do get one that works, the area it provides with a boosted signal inside is so small it was not much use. It might work if you just want a stronger signal at one desk in the house.

But “WiFi calling” has been very effective the connection to your phone company goes via your own WiFi and internet connection. You have to make sure the mobile network company you use supports “WiFi calling” and sometimes you have to phone them to get it enabled. The mobile phone has to support it as well.

With a good WiFi signal around the house and garden we don’t need to worry about the mobile phone signal.

Getting a good WiFi signal is another challenge but it’s much easier than boosting mobile phone signals!

When setting up a good WiFi coverage in the house/garden I needed several access points to get full coverage. This took a bit of wiring up but has been well worth it.

One tip : with WiFi the old standard frequency of 2.4Ghz has a much better range so after I turned off the newer 5Ghz signal it really improved WiFi calling. WiFi calling does not need the higher speeds offered by 5Ghz and so the far better range if 2.4Ghz makes a big difference.

The only issue with WiFi calling is if you are wandering about while on a call and you go from one WiFi access point to another in your house, it can cut you off. So we have to stop moving once on a call - I don’t have a problem with this but some people who like wandering about on a call will have to be restrained!

 

[oldiesontour]

We have a often unusable mobile signal (3) inside or outside on a phone but after a few attempts with mobile router and external antennas (poynting 3/4g then a 5g) and zyxel(3 badged unlocked 5 g router ) in the loft get a reasonable speed and have no landline 50 ISH smart devices...sold poynting 5g airel as it made no difference at all despite spending a lot of time on the roof trying for a better signal.So in our case the correct mobile router is key , it is then cheap and easy to add gateways or repeaters ( mine used as a gateway was around £10 the 5g router £130)
SIM £10 month so saving in line rental more than paid for complete set up in first year( now on year 3)

 

[matbic]

Sorry I might not have made myself clear about Wi-Fi calling! I don’t have any mobile signal so can’t receive phone calls but I do have a good internet connection via a fibre line. Wi-Fi calling solves the problem of no coverage for phone calls. It uses my good internet connection instead. So when someone dials my number my phone rings even though I have no mobile coverage.

To get an internet data connection for browsing etc in an area with little mobile network is a different problem. Sounds like you have already discovered that in areas of low coverage it’s quite a challenge!

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[Pausim]

Sorry I might not have made myself clear about Wi-Fi calling! I don’t have any mobile signal so can’t receive phone calls but I do have a good internet connection via a fibre line. Wi-Fi calling solves the problem of no coverage for phone calls. It uses my good internet connection instead. So when someone dials my number my phone rings even though I have no mobile coverage.

To get an internet data connection for browsing etc in an area with little mobile network is a different problem. Sounds like you have already discovered that in areas of low coverage it’s quite a challenge!

We rely in WiFi calling because the EE and O2 signals are non existent in the village. The problem is that when (not if) we get power cuts the router shuts down. I now have a small Ecoflow to plug the router into which should give internet and WiFi calling for about 8 hours. We have been told that a 999 call from our mobiles should go through without WiFi because there is a weak Vodafone signal in the area and emergency calls from a mobile will use any available network.

 

[Jacasino]

Your company probably had a license Ofcom have new rulings and as per my previous post.

I have been looking at one of these, the suppliers go to some lengths to say that they are Ofcom compliant, you’ve got me wondering now.

HiBoost Hi10-3S Pro: 3-Band Home Signal Booster

Boost home connectivity with HiBoost Hi10-3S-Pro. Boost EGSM 900, DCS 1800, 3G 2100 for crystal-clear calls.Conforms to ETSI & 3GPP, ComReg compliant.

mobilesignalsolutions.co.uk

 

[frenchie46]

As said earlier, wi-fi calling is the way to go - we have no signal indoors and virtually none outside where I live in a very rural area, but thanks to Fastershire (a collaboration with local authorities and Gigaclear) we have very fast and stable broadband. However, before Gigaclear was installed, our BT broadband was useless - 4 or 5 Mb download, 0.5 upload on a good day with the wind behind it - and as has been said, mobile signal boosters, which used to be available from Vodafone and others, no longer exist.

So we used NationalBroadband. They install an aerial outside to boost the mobile signal and provide a router that gets the internet from the phone mast. We were getting about 40-50 download, 20-30 upload, and stable wi-fi calling, although this could go down a bit at certain times in the evening. If your broadband is very poor, try them, they are a very good company, great service and they will give you an honest assessment of your situation. (I have no affiliation with them by the way).

 

[Pausim]

I have been looking at one of these, the suppliers go to some lengths to say that they are Ofcom compliant, you’ve got me wondering now.

HiBoost Hi10-3S Pro: 3-Band Home Signal Booster

Boost home connectivity with HiBoost Hi10-3S-Pro. Boost EGSM 900, DCS 1800, 3G 2100 for crystal-clear calls.Conforms to ETSI & 3GPP, ComReg compliant.

mobilesignalsolutions.co.uk

That one does appear on the Ofcom list of compliant boosters.

Using a repeater to improve your indoor mobile phone signal

Poor or no indoor mobile signal? A repeater could help you get better coverage.

www.ofcom.org.uk

 

[Siming13]

Is it possible to boost the signal to a mobile at a house... A house we are lookingat has a low 5g signal indoors, but outside the signal is stronger, is it possible to boost the signal?

These are the guys to look at https://www.myamplifiers.com/?gad_s...rtyoIVYpoq5MuXzyhCytQSJ4CdcFTyIxoClosQAvD_BwE

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[Pausim]

These are the guys to look at https://www.myamplifiers.com/?gad_s...rtyoIVYpoq5MuXzyhCytQSJ4CdcFTyIxoClosQAvD_BwE

Not sure their kit is on the Ofcom approved list. It may comply but I would stick with one that has been approved independently.

 

[AdrianChen]

Is it possible to boost the signal to a mobile at a house... A house we are lookingat has a low 5g signal indoors, but outside the signal is stronger, is it possible to boost the signal?

We're similar, with a usable 4g signal outside, but not good inside. I have looked into puting a small Yagi aerial on our chimney stack, which will give us a good signal, and use a small booster in the house, so it can be done, but you have to check it complies with the regs and so is a legal device, some (many?) are not. It seems CEL-Fi are a brand that comply - expensive though. We did have one years ago which did work enough for calls, but not data, it's now broken!

3G, 4G & 5G Mobile Phone Signal Boosters & Accessories

Signal Boosters

signalboosters.co.uk

 

[Pausim]

We're similar, with a usable 4g signal outside, but not good inside. I have looked into puting a small Yagi aerial on our chimney stack, which will give us a good signal, and use a small booster in the house, so it can be done, but you have to check it complies with the regs and so is a legal device, some (many?) are not. It seems CEL-Fi are a brand that comply - expensive though. We did have one years ago which did work enough for calls, but not data, it's now broken!

3G, 4G & 5G Mobile Phone Signal Boosters & Accessories

Signal Boosters

signalboosters.co.uk

Again Cel-Fi are not on the Ofcom approved list. I do wonder why these firms that claim compliance haven’t bothered to get their kit independently assessed.

 

[AdrianChen]

Again Cel-Fi are not on the Ofcom approved list. I do wonder why these firms that claim compliance haven’t bothered to get their kit independently assessed.

That scuppers that then! To be fair with WIFI calling we're OK now, so wasn't going to bother, but it would be nice to ditch the landline and just use mobile, so far Starlink has been reliable enough.......

 

[gus-lopez]

Having had 22 years of shite mobile phone signal at home combined with similar internet connections & a mobile provider not originally offering wifi calling I'd walk away. what signal outside that might be ok today might well not be there tomorrow.

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