Mobile Signal Boosters?

[L500]

Hi. I've just moved to an area whereby my Orange mobile has a very poor signal inside. Orange said I should investigate signal boosters but couldn't recommend any, as they are not allowed to...

Can anyone help?

Cheers.

[G C]

I left orange for that very reason.

They never had signal but kept promising that it would be done next week, next week, next week.. Why don't you try a different phone? Well Mr Orange why don't you give me another phone? Cause we've already given you one.. Which doesn't have signal..

They came down to the conclusion that it was my fault as my house walls are too thick..

Despite not getting signal on my entire road.

Really thick walls there.

Sorry i can't help with signal boosters, but i changed to o2, signals tops but CS sucks.

[Mr E]

L500 said:

Hi. I've just moved to an area whereby my Orange mobile has a very poor signal inside. Orange said I should investigate signal boosters but couldn't recommend any, as they are not allowed to...

Can anyone help?

Ring orange up and tell them you want a home access point. Or a femtocell.

Please do this, it'll keep me in sports cars....

[ol]

I'm having the same problem after just moving house into an area where there is no Orange signal.

I've had to buy a seperate Vodaphone pay as you go phone, and then set the orange phone to divert to the Vodaphone one when it's out of signal.

Annoying? you bet.

[tracer.smart]

I have recently fitted a mobile gain antenna to my chimney stack - this is connected to an amplifier in my attic. I now have 5 bars signal all over the house whereas before I had 1 or 2.

I am with vodafone which operate on 900MHz - I believe the same freq as Orange. Antennas are available for 900MHz, 1800MHz, 3G. You can combine a 900 and 1800MHz amplifier as a dual unit, but a tri-band is not yet available so 3G is always separate.

All in cost about £400.

I was hoping the ariel would make my place look like GCHQ, but actually it's pretty discrete.

[The Black Duke]

tracer.smart said:

I have recently fitted a mobile gain antenna to my chimney stack - this is connected to an amplifier in my attic. I now have 5 bars signal all over the house whereas before I had 1 or 2.

I am with vodafone which operate on 900MHz - I believe the same freq as Orange. Antennas are available for 900MHz, 1800MHz, 3G. You can combine a 900 and 1800MHz amplifier as a dual unit, but a tri-band is not yet available so 3G is always separate.

All in cost about £400.

I was hoping the ariel would make my place look like GCHQ, but actually it's pretty discrete.

Just for info Orange runs at 1800 megs.

[Big_Dan]

I have this problem too. Orange have a thing they call "Unique Phone", which is a version of UMA.

I have a Blackberry 8820 with wi-fi built in and it uses the wireless in the house for the first hop to the mobile network. It is genius.

I'm about to change my main handset to a Nokia 6301 which offers the same thing.

[snorky]

tracer.smart said:

I have recently fitted a mobile gain antenna to my chimney stack - this is connected to an amplifier in my attic. I now have 5 bars signal all over the house whereas before I had 1 or 2.

I am with vodafone which operate on 900MHz - I believe the same freq as Orange. Antennas are available for 900MHz, 1800MHz, 3G. You can combine a 900 and 1800MHz amplifier as a dual unit, but a tri-band is not yet available so 3G is always separate.

All in cost about £400.

I was hoping the ariel would make my place look like GCHQ, but actually it's pretty discrete.

From where? please...

[Uncle Fester]

Big_Dan said:

I have this problem too. Orange have a thing they call "Unique Phone", which is a version of UMA.

I have a Blackberry 8820 with wi-fi built in and it uses the wireless in the house for the first hop to the mobile network. It is genius.

I'm about to change my main handset to a Nokia 6301 which offers the same thing.

In our village hardly anyone gets a reliable signal. You get cut off mid call every time. This is all networks.

Some of have wifi on our mobiles and the house has a wifi network.

How do you do the first hop thing? I know how to configure a network but haven't heard of linking into mobile phones with it.

[Mr E]

Big_Dan said:

I have this problem too. Orange have a thing they call "Unique Phone", which is a version of UMA.

I have a Blackberry 8820 with wi-fi built in and it uses the wireless in the house for the first hop to the mobile network. It is genius.

Oh we're *so* far ahead of that. Give me 6 months.