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Tracer

(2,769 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:53 PM Nov 2020

How 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.

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LizBeth

(9,946 posts)
1. I have that with ATT/iphone6. I havent decided if phone or ATT. I have to walk out side to send at
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:55 PM
Nov 2020

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)
14. we have AT&T and we live deep in a canyon...so we still have to have a land line but
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 05:26 PM
Nov 2020

..we can make calls on our cell phones using an M Cell. i guess thats an extender?

LizBeth

(9,946 posts)
15. I never had a problem and I was all over the country. First time I had issues was moving to Eugene
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 05:44 PM
Nov 2020

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)
2. In my office, we have a large warehouse adjacent
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:55 PM
Nov 2020

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.

Phoenix61

(16,954 posts)
3. Do you have any friends with Verizon cell phone
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:56 PM
Nov 2020

service but a different phone? See if their phone works on your house. Maybe need a new/different phone?

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,847 posts)
5. Some people use cell phone boosters.
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:56 PM
Nov 2020

They're antennas that amplify the signals, but they can be a bit expensive.

Maybe a different provider will give you better signals?

phylny

(8,353 posts)
16. We just got Internet here in Virginia (thanks, Governor Northam!)
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 06:02 PM
Nov 2020

and this is what we do. Works very well.

voteearlyvoteoften

(1,716 posts)
11. Get a cell phone signal booster
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:59 PM
Nov 2020

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 you’d have to have service.


doc03

(35,148 posts)
12. I am the same it just started recently. When
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 05:05 PM
Nov 2020

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

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