Posted: 7/24/2010 8:12:35 PM EDT
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I live in a semi-rural area, and I have no cell signal at home with AT&T. This has never been a problem in the past, since I've always had a land line. I just changed jobs, and I'll occasionally be on-call, so my cell will need to work at home. I have a decent signal at about 2 miles in any direction, I'm just in a dead zone, I guess.
Sprint, T-Mobile, etc don't work here either. Verizon works most of the time, but the signal is very weak inside - switching networks is not ideal anyways (loss of rollover minutes, no free m2m, fees, etc). So what are my options? Call Forwarding to my landline when I'm on-call? Some sort of antenna/signal booster? AT&T MicroCell? Some other VoIP-type setup (I have 3mb DSL)? |
| Hmm, maybe google voice would help you. Look it up and sign up for an invite. Google voice gives you a number and with that number you can choose what phone it rings. Like the adds say, one number to rule them all.So if you just gave that number as your work number it could be setup to ring the land line, thus bypassing the whole cell phone signal issue. But the google voice number could also ring your cell phone too for when you get signal. |
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I live in a semi-rural area, and I have no cell signal at home with AT&T. This has never been a problem in the past, since I've always had a land line. I just changed jobs, and I'll occasionally be on-call, so my cell will need to work at home. I have a decent signal at about 2 miles in any direction, I'm just in a dead zone, I guess. Sprint, T-Mobile, etc don't work here either. Verizon works most of the time, but the signal is very weak inside - switching networks is not ideal anyways (loss of rollover minutes, no free m2m, fees, etc). So what are my options? Call Forwarding to my landline when I'm on-call? Some sort of antenna/signal booster? AT&T MicroCell? Some other VoIP-type setup (I have 3mb DSL)? Go to the ATT store and ask about the 3G Microcell Tower. |
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Go to the ATT store and ask about the 3G Microcell Tower. I just brought it home. The store manager told me on the phone that my current ATT dsl service made me eligible for a $50 mail in rebate, but once I got to the store, she said I had to get the Microcell with new DSL service to be eligible. Since she made a mistake, she gave me an instant $50 rebate - with the discount, it cost me $100. I just activated and installed it. I should know if it works in about 90 mins, after it gets itself setup. |
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It's called a femto cell. If you have any troubles, message me.
I work for the death star in Mobility engineering and we field tested those dsl/cell sites over the last year. 
www.howardforums.com is also an excellent resource for cell phone issues. Not sure if they have anything onjthe femto cells though.... http://www.wireless.att.com/support_static_files/KB/svc/documents/1263477627291.UserManual_011310.pdf Check the bottom of page 5 if you have firewall/router issues. |