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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow can I improve cell phone reception in my house?
It's stinks. I can hardly make or receive a phone call. I'm almost ready to go back to a landline.
I have Verizon internet and streaming and that works great. It's just the cell reception that is awful.
LizBeth
(9,946 posts)least half of my people text pictures. I mean walk down side walk toward street. And some time of the day while talking on the phone. I always hear them, but they can't hear me, It is very frustrating, while I pay for the service. Running outside in the rain and cold to send a picture to my son. Stupid.
samnsara
(17,570 posts)..we can make calls on our cell phones using an M Cell. i guess thats an extender?
LizBeth
(9,946 posts)But it got particularly bad when I moved it a huge ass hill blocking the tower. Or 5g made my phone worse. I do not know. It has gotten bad and have worked with both ATT and iphone and still have a problem. Two decades and never a problem with ATT.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)and LOTS of metal, so reception on the shop floor was spotty, at best. We installed a repeater, and things have been fine since. They run a few hundred dollars, and for a home would be placed near a window, with the antenna a affixed to the glass (suction cup), which boost the signal in the house.
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(884 posts)Phoenix61
(16,954 posts)service but a different phone? See if their phone works on your house. Maybe need a new/different phone?
PirateRo
(933 posts)Search for indoor cellular signal booster
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,847 posts)They're antennas that amplify the signals, but they can be a bit expensive.
Maybe a different provider will give you better signals?
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)using Wi-Fi, if your Wi-Fi is fast enough.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,847 posts)I'm barely using my spotty cellular connection ever since getting high-speed cable WiFi again.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Phoenix61
(16,954 posts)phylny
(8,353 posts)and this is what we do. Works very well.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)My carrier paid for or gave me a discount because I am in a fringe area. It works great. Works with the internet though so youd have to have service.
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(1,716 posts)doc03
(35,148 posts)I first got my cell phone I sometimes had to go outside to talk. Then AT&T put a new tower in about a mile away and it has worked fine until the last couple months. I have a Tracfone I am thinking maybe AT&T doesn't let Tracfone
use their tower now. A friend of mine that lives a little over a mile away has a AT&T landline got billed for $68 for calling me long distance. He called and they told him it was routed through an office 30 miles away. I call him there is no bill but the call drops all the time