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GSM Repeater?
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So my iPhone works great except for one thing... service in my house is horrible. There are some parts of my house where it works sometimes, and outside is fine. Does anyone have experience with or know of a device that will repeat the signal from outside? I found some results with a google search but no product reviews. I'd hate to drop some dough without knowing how well something might work. Any ideas?
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The NY Times reviewed a product from wi-ex ( Wireless Extenders - Home) back on November 30, 2006. The product is called zBoost Dual Band, and supports GSM & CDMA. It got a short but ok review, with the writer saying it gave him 4 bars in a previous dead zone (his basement, 1-2 bars normally).
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Jalen's dad. Carrie's husband. partisan. Bleu blanc et rouge.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by BKuchta 
So my iPhone works great except for one thing... service in my house is horrible. There are some parts of my house where it works sometimes, and outside is fine. Does anyone have experience with or know of a device that will repeat the signal from outside? I found some results with a google search but no product reviews. I'd hate to drop some dough without knowing how well something might work. Any ideas?
My parents have one of these in their house - it's certainly effective, but it wasn't cheap. I think it may have even been more than the $399 one mentioned above - closer to $1k.
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Good lord, they are charging a lot for those things. Really, service providers (like AT&T) should provide one of these for free to people that can't get good coverage in their homes. I know it'll never happen, but it should.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Anyone want to bet that the 2008 AirPort Extreme station will include a HSDPA femtocell too?
Femtocells are supposed to be huge in 2008, even Google is getting in on it.
(A femtocell is a tiny 3G base station that you connect to the internet to give you more coverage and cheaper usage)
Of course the HSDPA iPhone will have to come out first...
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