Alejandro Renteria
Comentado en México el 25 de noviembre de 2024
He comprado 2 signal booster de otras marcas que de inmediato emitieron la señal que requeríamos pero en este caso elegí este producto por que queríamos algo de mayor calidad y mayor potencia pero por algún motivo jamás emitió absolutamente ninguna señal a pesar de que el dispositivo principal siempre tuvo el foco indicador encendido en color Verde, y lo peor es que la aplicación para controlarlo no está disponible en México.
Seysme
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 13 de septiembre de 2024
I’ve tried 3 of these cell booster units. A WeBoost, a CellBoost model 8k and their cheaper 5K for $140.00. The 5K was the only one that kind-of worked. My phone would say I had 2 bars, and I could make a phone call, but the reception was bad, and it would not hold the signal. And I could not access the internet at all. Moreover, these boosters get really hot. The 8k was the worst… dangerously hot! I was very careful to follow installation instructions to the T and installed the antenna on a high pole. My verdict is that these units simply don’t work! SOLUTION: While I’m in my home, I use WI-FI calling. I only need a signal boost during power outages. Because I can get 1-2 bars at one of my windows, I purchase a silicon suction cup cell phone holder and stick my phone to the window. Then I use my phone as a hot spot for my tablet to access the internet, and a Bluetooth headset for phone calls. I have to stay in the hotspot / Bluetooth range of the phone, but it gets me by during a power outage.
Excelente para pelaje blanco
Comentado en México el 16 de septiembre de 2023
De no tener señal a tener el 100%, funciona fantástico con Telcel y AT&Y
Sourcehound
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 28 de julio de 2022
I live in a semi-rural area, where the nearest cell tower is a few miles away. My property is 1/4 mile from the road, so there's no cable Internet service and I was quoted $7000 for installation. Needless to say, I survived using a T-Mobile hostspot and my cell phone, but it was often painful, since I need to work remotely.Back in November 2021, I signed up for T-Mobile home internet service, which is basically unlimited 5G wireless for $50 per month. The first few weeks I had it, it worked fantastically - I was getting between 30 and 40 mbps consistently. Yet the router T-Mobile provided kept needing to be rebooted - over and over and over again. Then, suddenly, around New Years, the speed slowed down to a crawl. Why? T-Mobile claimed they were "upgrading" the closest cell tower to my house.Well, after that "upgrade" I was never able to get decent 5G service again - and I got very tired of the Nokia Gateway needing to be rebooted several times a day. I then saw T-Mobile had a different style router a "rectangular" one instead of the round one I was.given. I purchased it off of eBay and had it activated and it was never able to get a 5G signal, however it was a much more stable - it didn't need to be rebooted and maintained a 4g connection of about 4.5 Mbps. Not terrible but not enough to stream video or TV at the highest resolution.This product did exactly what I hoped it would do - it boosted the 5g signal enough so that I am now able to get 35-40 Mbps speeds out of my router, and it's nice and stable....finally, decent wireless internet service. The downside is that I had to spend about $700 in equipment to get it to work, but I guess that's better than $7000.This was exactly the right solution, but if there's any negatives, it's that installation is fairly challenging. Luckily I had a metal pole next to my house on which I was able to mount the outside antenna. The cables are standard coaxial cables and somewhat hard to run, in the end you'll have to tack them down to the baseboards. I couldn't get the booster to work properly until I put the antenna outside on the pole, so if you try to test it in the house first you could very well assume it wasn't going to work.
Amaury
Comentado en México el 4 de octubre de 2022
No sirve para nada, se intentó instalar de varias formas, calibrar, etc y simplemente no funciona.
Robert from Alaska
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 5 de agosto de 2020
I’ll start by saying that 5 or 6 years ago I bought the prior version of this WeBoost MultiRoom. I installed it at my house, where I had very bad cell reception inside, but outside or at an upstairs window I got OK reception. I bought this version for the similar directional antenna, better gain, and the larger coverage area for inside my new home. Last year I moved, and the old WeBoost stayed at the old house. For the last 13 months I have struggled with dropped calls, poor data rates, loss of data connectivity. I needed to solve the same problems I had before, so I went with a brand that lasted me 4 years or more and did a wonderful job the whole time.First, I did a dry run or ‘soft test’ by placing the antenna on the upstairs deck rail and running the cable through a doorway. Worked pretty well, in my kitchen I went from one bar 3G 1MBPS download to 2 bars 4G/LTE and 10MBPS download, which was as good or better than I expected. I installed the directional antenna outside under the eaves of my house, and used OpenSignal app to get a rough idea of which direction to point the antenna, routed the ouside cable under the eaves and used the included flat connector to come through a slider window. WORKED GREAT. Once inside I mounted the interior antenna on the slope of my interior roof, pointing down at about 45 degrees across the kitchen and living room.Signal test after final placement was 16.2MBPS and phone shows 3 to 4 bars of LTE. Perfect - as good as I get in town on a good day.Note: My install is NOT perfectly in line with the instruction book. The two antennas are at the same height, and I only have 20 feet between the outside antenna and the inside antenna, but they do face away from each other. The book calls for as much as 50’ separation, and encourages 20’ of vertical separation, but as far as I can tell I have no significant interference and the speed increase was 10X to 15X improvement. I even have LTE at the other end of the house, and 3 to 4 bars of 3G in the basement where I was lucky to show any connection at all before.The multi-room unit with directional antenna was priced higher than I liked, and I will be watching it pretty closely for the next few weeks to make sure performance holds, but if it does as well as my last one... I will count it a success and well worth the extra money. I do not have a 5G signal in my area, and have an older IPhone 6S, so it may be a year or three before I use that feature, but its nice to know the new units will also work for 5G when it comes my way.
Jason B
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 30 de agosto de 2020
So I purchased this for our house in the Phoenix area. We have plenty of coverage most of the places around us, but for whatever reason the signal in our house was not that great. Our phones would not get better than 1 bar and we would lose phone calls and our data was slower than I thought it should be (of course we are on wifi all the time). After talking with ATT over and over and over and over, it was obvious they were not going to do anything to help us out so I decided to give this a try. To be honest I was kind of hoping it would not work since it was $550 and I was not to excited about spending that kind of money on a device to make a cell phone work! But working from home I live on the phone and using WiFi calling never seemed to give the same overall quality, was delayed, etc.Just to give you a quick idea of how I found the towers, since we are all iOS users, there was not a great app for it and you can't get a great signal meter on the iPhone anymore even with going into the test mode of the phone. This may not be the best way, but it sure worked good for me. I have seen many towers when I am out and about so I decided to drive to each tower that I have seen within a couple of miles of me, and mark them on a map if my signal on my phone was really good when close to it. Each tower I got to, I would turn airplane mode on and back off to make sure it got a fresh signal and if the signal was not that strong, I assumed it was not a tower for me.After getting those marked on a map, I went home and opened up google maps and found the location of each tower, then i used the measure feature (right click on the tower to go to measure) and drew a straight line to the location on my house I was going to place the antenna. After doing this and being in Satellite view, it gave me a very good line of sight and direction to point the outside antenna.I mounted the outside pole on the peak of the roof since that was where it was going to live, and then ran all the wires through doorways before I got crazy drilling holes, etc. Having the outside antenna mounted is important though so that you know it did not end up hanging down and pointed at the ground when you are inside checking signal. After getting things hooked up, I turned on the repeater, cycled airplane mode on my phone and BAM I instantly had full bars! You can see on the images that the signal increased and the speed test was a huge difference!I decided to not even try the other towers since this one worked so well for us. I have not checked other providers yet as we all have ATT so I did not worry about it that much but I do have the ability to rotate the outside antenna pretty easy if I need to.The inside piece looks like a doorbell or something so it's not that "ugly" and we have it facing out into the larger area of our home. Our home is about 2100 sq ft and it seems to have made a big difference no matter were we go as long as we are not behind the inside antenna. Even directly beside it and around 15' away we still get a very nice solid 3 bars and calls are perfectly clear.The main reason I did not give it 5 stars is I would like to see a few things different for the price.1. Would be nice if the amplifier had more than just lights on it. Seems like it would not be hard to put an LCD display that gives a bit more info rather than different color lights. I know they have commercial units that do this from Wilson, but for $550 I think it should.2. I would also like the ability to put more inside antennas, maybe ceiling mounted ones in different rooms. Now to be fair, I have not asked Wilson about this yet, but I do not see anything on their website that states I could.3. I wish there was a better way to search for and find your outside cell phone towers. I know this is not their fault, but maybe they could somehow work with a company and develop an app. I mean this is their primary business of celling cell phone repeaters.4. I wish the price was not so high for the features we get.Again as I had mentioned before I was shocked how well it did work. It has only been in for a day but so far it's been solid. Time will tell and if anything changes I will be sure to come back and update the review.
BrotherJack
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 22 de noviembre de 2019
This thing works GREAT!!!! I went from 0 service to 4 out of 5 bars of service with this thing. However, there are two things you need to know to get that kind of performance, so I will tell you those two things, and then post a how-to for how I set mine up.1) You have to research which bands the booster will boost and compare them to which bands your cell phone provider (and your specific cell phone) uses. WeBoost (and others) sell different boosters for different bands and carriers. It would seem obvious - but if this booster does not boost the band(s) you need, then you will get no boost (which is the main complaint the negative reviewers post).2) The antenna is DIRECTIONAL, which means you need to point it in the direction of the tower(s) you are going to be using. If you don't, it can drastically affect how well it works (or doesn't).How-To (or How-I-Did):Before I ordered: I used a free phone app for Android called "Network Cell Info Lite" (there are others that do the same thing), which would tell me 1) what bands my phone was using, and 2) what direction the towers were from my current location. With the app installed on my phone, I climbed up on a ladder until I finally got a signal (I got 0 signal on the ground, so climbing the ladder was a necessity). About 15 feet off the ground, I got about -110dbm of signal, and found that the phone would alternate between band 5 and band 13. I checked, and this booster does both of them, so I ordered it. I also checked, and it showed me the location of the towers, both of which were in the same direction, north and east of my location.When the WeBoost arrived (along with a $18 Wilson mast I bought to mount it to the side of my barn), I unpacked the unit and read the directions. I mounted the antenna on the side of the barn about 18 feet off the ground, and pointed the antenna roughly in the direction of where I knew the towers were from my pre-order checklist. Then I ran the cables, and setup the booster and the inside antenna as explained in the directions.I turned everything on, and was disappointed to find I got 0 signal boost. I pulled out the app again, and checked the location of the towers, and realized I had the antenna pointed about 20 degrees the wrong way.When I looked close, I also saw I had it probably 15 degrees out of line on the horizontal axis as well. That's what I get for 'eyeballing it'. Back up the ladder with the phone in hand, and this time I got it lined up within about 1-2 degrees of 'perfect' (at least according to where the phone said the towers are).OH SNAP, THAT WORKED!!!! The light on the booster unit went from red to green, and I found I suddenly had 4 out of 5 bars of 4G signal when standing in the exact same spot(s) where I previously had 0 signal at all (no 3g, no 4g, not even 1x). Phone worked fantastic, download speeds were great, etc.This specific unit has a higher level of boost (covers more area) than most, and I find that my phone works anywhere within about 100 feet of the inside antenna that re-transmits the boosted signal.So in summary - the antenna is pretty directional, so you need to get it lined up on the tower you want it to boost from pretty well, and you need to have a unit that boosts the band(s) your phone/provider uses. If you can do those two things, this thing works GREAT. If you can't do those two things, you may have a less than happy experience with this thing (and probably any booster, as they all work on the same principles).Hope this helps.