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How can I improve mobile reception in my office?
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| 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
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| seeeker 2006-11-21, 12:33 pm |
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On Nov 21, 5:05 pm, "OM" <om.newsgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office.
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> I have to go the window and stick my head out!
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> I get just enough reception to get calls... but then I can hardly hear
> the caller and they literally can hear me!
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> Is there anyway I can improve reception...?
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> Not being funny... but would a carkit help in anyway...?
> They have aerial extensions??
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Thanks.
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> 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.
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| Neil - Usenet 2006-11-21, 12:33 pm |
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"OM" <om.newsgroup@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office.
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> I have to go the window and stick my head out!
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> I get just enough reception to get calls... but then I can hardly hear
> the caller and they literally can hear me!
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> Is there anyway I can improve reception...?
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> Not being funny... but would a carkit help in anyway...?
> They have aerial extensions??
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Thanks.
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> OM
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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.
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| seeeker 2006-11-21, 3:33 pm |
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On Nov 21, 6:33 pm, "Neil - Usenet" <usen...@SPAMblueyonder.co.uk>
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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 =A32.50 outlay, I
can only report as my experience shows :-)
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> We have the same problem in our house and bought some of these last
> week from this seller :
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> http://tinyurl.com/ydxgrf
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> 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.
Wouldnt one of these devices affect the phones SAR rating?
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"OM" <om.newsgroup@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office.
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> I have to go the window and stick my head out!
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> I get just enough reception to get calls... but then I can hardly hear
> the caller and they literally can hear me!
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> Is there anyway I can improve reception...?
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> Not being funny... but would a carkit help in anyway...?
> They have aerial extensions??
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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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
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"seeeker" <forward@fireflyuk.net> wrote in message
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> We have the same problem in our house and bought some of these last
> week from this seller :
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> http://tinyurl.com/ydxgrf
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> 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.
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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.
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| Neil - Usenet 2006-11-21, 3:33 pm |
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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 :-)
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a new bts coicidently gone live at same time?
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| 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.
> 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.
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> 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.
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Jon
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| AnthonyL 2006-11-26, 4:33 am |
| On 21 Nov 2006 09:05:04 -0800, "OM" <om.newsgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
>Mobile reception for all networks is amazingly poor in my office.
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>I have to go the window and stick my head out!
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>I get just enough reception to get calls... but then I can hardly hear
>the caller and they literally can hear me!
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>Is there anyway I can improve reception...?
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Peter Parry (http://www.wpp.ltd.uk) used to supply solutions to this.
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AnthonyL
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| hairydog@despammed.com 2006-11-27, 10:33 pm |
| On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:50:17 GMT, "Joe" <noway@here.com> wrote:
>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.
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Iain
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