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Product Review Summary: Good, but not great Installation of the unit is simple, as they state in the instructions, as long as you follow the instructions closely. To some people it seems counter-intuitive to move the base unit AWAY from the antenna to receive a better signal, but that is what you have to do. Move it away and seperate by a few walls or floors and it works fine. The main problem after that is that it's affect, as far as improving your signal, is limited to maybe 500 square feet. I tweeked the base unit location numerous times and the affect it had on the signal sent to the phone was negligable once you get more than 10' - 15' away. But that, for my needs anyway, is just what I needed. Remember, if you get little or no signal at all this product will do you no good, it won't make something out of nothing. But if you get a decent signal, say 1-2 bars as you stand near a window or outside door, set your antenna up there and move the base to where you want to boost your signal. It'll boost the signal, just don't expect to do it to more than a 20' circle.
Product Review Summary: The zBoost is great! We installed the zBoost unit and got improved reception all over the house. We are in a zone where T-Mobile says they have NO service. With the zBoost we are able to continue our contract with T-Mobile and have quite decent reception even in an area they say they don't service. It is quite interesting really.
So, we think the unit is quite a success for us.
Product Review Summary: ok but didn't make a huge difference for us Easy to set up. Clean and nice appearance. Seems to have made a difference, but not a huge difference. Not sure whether I installed it in an optimal location or not. (The repeater is in the attic as high as possible to try to reach the tower signal.) In retrospect given the actual results I got, I'm not sure it was worth the money. Perhaps i could have optimized the installation, such as by putting the repeater outdoors under the eaves, to get better results.
Product Review Summary: Totally works i was very skeptical about this product after reading some of the negative reviews. after trying a couple of different installations, this thing works awesome. my office is an old industrial building with a tin roof, att got barely 1 bar inside but full coverage outside. we initially tried installing the large antenna against the outer wall, with the repeater about 50ft away. this didn't work, the repeater's signal constantly interfered with the large antenna. then we installed the large antenna on the outside of the building, about 80 ft away. this was the trick, being on the outside, the signals never interfered and now we get full coverage inside the building.
totally worth the money!
Product Review Summary: very irregular I tried this at our beach house for a week, on ATT, using an iPhone, windows candybar style phone with an antenna nub, and a dumbphone (plain featurephone). It didn't fix our issues (as a last resort, we've actually now switched to another carrier)
Some other reviewers aren't seeing the distinction between repeating signal from a strong location to a weak one, versus 'amplifying' an otherwise unacceptable signal. This device is only for 'moving' a strong signal (for me, on the roof) to another location (say inside the house where the signal is weak)
We are on a hill and at ground level had 'spotty' coverage inside and around the house. If you walked up the hill a little bit you could get more reliable coverage. At night coverage would actually sometimes be reliable, but during peak hours it was non existent (cell towers often prioritize stronger signals to minimize overall number of dropped calls).
This evidence led me to believe that at the ~roof level we should have several bars of signal. (I wasn't able to get up there and try it, though) Since we are on a hill, this made sense.
Nonetheless, it didn't seem to work well. It has three diagnostic lights that each have two or three colors. Them manual enumerates several pretty cryptic combinations that are supposed to tell you what's wrong.
Besides being unclear, the diagnostics would change very rapidly, say from 'antennas too close' to 'signal too strong' to 'signal too weak'.
As such, it never gave us a dependable signal, so I returned it.
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