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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / November 2006How can I improve mobile reception in my office?
Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office. I have to go the window and stick my head out! I get just enough reception to get calls... but then I can hardly hear the caller and they literally can hear me! Is there anyway I can improve reception...? Not being funny... but would a carkit help in anyway...? They have aerial extensions?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. OM > Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > OM We have the same problem in our house and bought some of these last week from this seller : http://tinyurl.com/ydxgrf Worked great on two Nokias boosting signal by two bars on both making them both useable indoors, but didn't make a scrap of difference to my Samsung D600. Worth a try for a couple of quid. > We have the same problem in our house and bought some of these last > week from this seller : [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Samsung D600. > Worth a try for a couple of quid. Wouldnt one of these devices affect the phones SAR rating? forward@fireflyuk.net declared for all the world to hear... > We have the same problem in our house and bought some of these last > week from this seller : [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Samsung D600. > Worth a try for a couple of quid. Oh deary me. One born every minute.  SignatureRegards Jon >> Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office. >> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Samsung D600. > Worth a try for a couple of quid. Waste of time and money. Those devices do not work. You can't improve a signal if it isn't there in the first place! You would need a passive repeater consisting of two aerials and some coax. Alternatively fit a glass mount aerial on a window and plug it in to the phone. If she says it works then it works, but the manufactures advise against holding the phone by the antenna, now the whole phone has become an antenna, nice microwave burns. Even Army land rovers come with warnings advising soldiers not to loiter within 5m of the truck, presumably when the antenna is switched on. >>> Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office. >>> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > Alternatively fit a glass mount aerial on a window and plug it in to the > phone. > If she says it works then it works, but the manufactures advise against > holding the phone by the antenna, now the whole phone has become an > antenna, nice microwave burns. Even Army land rovers come with warnings > advising soldiers not to loiter within 5m of the truck, presumably when > the antenna is switched on. <snip top post> What is it with top posters invarably talking crap? What has high power Army BOMAN radios have to do with the scam of so called GSM mobile phone aerial boosters that don't work Steve Terry >If she says it works then it works, There is no way it could possibly work. If there was, do you really think that the manufacturer wouldn't have added this 0.1p worth of foil track to the phone's casing? >but the manufactures advise against >holding the phone by the antenna, now the whole phone has become an antenna, >nice microwave burns. The reason you are not supposed to hold the phone by the antenna is that your hand would affect the SWR and stop the thing radiating. Microwave burns from a phone? Don't be silly. How are you going to get burned from a small proportion of at most half a watt of output? Your hand is at a far higher temperature than the phone. You'll heat the phone, not the other way round. >Even Army land rovers come with warnings advising >soldiers not to loiter within 5m of the truck, presumably when the antenna >is switched on. Perhaps army land rovers have other risks apart from a tiny, feeble mobile phone transmitter. SignatureIain the out-of-date hairydog guide to mobile phones http://www.hairydog.co.uk/cell1.html Browse now while stocks last! > Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > OM id got with a cark. avoid the stick on 'booster' antenna's. they are not worth money they are printed on. They may increase the rsi,but the rxQ/txQ is not changed. On Nov 21, 6:33 pm, "Neil - Usenet" <usen...@SPAMblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office. > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > worth money they are printed on. They may increase the rsi,but the rxQ/txQ > is not changed.- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - I know not a jot about rxQ/txQ but what I can report is that two Nokia phones (3410 & 6230) that have never been useable in our property now both have two bars and are now fully functional for £2.50 outlay, I can only report as my experience shows :-) On Nov 21, 6:33 pm, "Neil - Usenet" <usen...@SPAMblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > "OM" <om.newsgr...@gmail.com> wrote in > messagenews:1164128704.864471.256120@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > worth money they are printed on. They may increase the rsi,but the rxQ/txQ > is not changed.- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - I know not a jot about rxQ/txQ but what I can report is that two Nokia phones (3410 & 6230) that have never been useable in our property now both have two bars and are now fully functional for £2.50 outlay, I can only report as my experience shows :-) ----------------------------------- a new bts coicidently gone live at same time? > Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office. > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Any help would be appreciated. Is it a company phone your using? If the company uses one network for all its phones then approach your business account manager for the network and ask them to install an in-building solution to your office. Not sure of the costs involved in this (it may not cost you anything if there is enough revenue that would normally be lost as there is no signal) but maybe worth a look. This will be a 1,2 or 4 radio system and antennas to give you a signal in your building. If you look in the back rooms of some of the mobile phone shops (orange, o2 etc) then they often have them fixed on the wall, especially in shopping centers where there is normally no signal. Steve >> Is there anyway I can improve reception...? The cheap stick-on repeaters don't (can't?) work. How about one of these though... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GSM-900MHZ-MOBILE-CELL-PHONE-INDOOR-REPEATER-AMPLIFIER_W0Q QitemZ120055487478QQihZ002QQcategoryZ4678QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem That'll work! But is it legal and would anyone know anyway? Jules anon@anon.com declared for all the world to hear... > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GSM-900MHZ-MOBILE-CELL-PHONE-INDOOR-REPEATER-AMPLIFIER_W0Q QitemZ120055487478QQihZ002QQcategoryZ4678QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > That'll work! Would it? It can only work with what little signal there is. You can't make signal out of nothing. It might make the phone read full signal but the link between this box and the cell site will still be crap. > But is it legal and would anyone know anyway? They are not legal in the UK. SignatureRegards Jon >Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Is there anyway I can improve reception...? Peter Parry (http://www.wpp.ltd.uk) used to supply solutions to this. SignatureAnthonyL |
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