[belleville1]

I wondered if any of the boffins on here could help me with a problem, or recommend any products that'd resolve it.

I live in an area of generally very good 3G mobile phone coverage from all the networks (except perhaps T-Mobile, but that doesn't matter). When I'm out and about day-to-day, I have no issues with coverage, so all networks suffice.

However, I live in a blackspot at the very edge of a town. In the half of my house where the windows face the town, I get decent, if slightly dropout-prone, 3G coverage from all networks - however, in rooms where my windows face out into the country, like the bedroom, I can only get a usable 2G signal from Vodafone who are hideously expensive. I have no real idea why a couple of interior walls would attenuate the signals coming from town so dramatically, but they do. It's like living in a Faraday cage. I'm getting mightily frustrated with missing calls, hearing people shout "come again? You're breaking up!" and not being able to use the phone at home.

I want to use "3", which works brilliantly everywhere outside of my house. But the only femtocell product I can find on the market is from... Vodafone! Does anyone know of a product I can get that's like Vodafone SureSignal, but works on non-Voda networks, or any other way of boosting the 3 signal so it reaches the hard-to-reach bit of my house? Perhaps something to relay the signal from the part it does reach into the part it doesn't...

Thanks in advance x

[plymouthbloke1974]

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Originally Posted by belleville1

I wondered if any of the boffins on here could help me with a problem, or recommend any products that'd resolve it.

I live in an area of generally very good 3G mobile phone coverage from all the networks (except perhaps T-Mobile, but that doesn't matter). When I'm out and about day-to-day, I have no issues with coverage, so all networks suffice.

However, I live in a blackspot at the very edge of a town. In the half of my house where the windows face the town, I get decent, if slightly dropout-prone, 3G coverage from all networks - however, in rooms where my windows face out into the country, like the bedroom, I can only get a usable 2G signal from Vodafone who are hideously expensive. I have no real idea why a couple of interior walls would attenuate the signals coming from town so dramatically, but they do. It's like living in a Faraday cage. I'm getting mightily frustrated with missing calls, hearing people shout "come again? You're breaking up!" and not being able to use the phone at home.

I want to use "3", which works brilliantly everywhere outside of my house. But the only femtocell product I can find on the market is from... Vodafone! Does anyone know of a product I can get that's like Vodafone SureSignal, but works on non-Voda networks, or any other way of boosting the 3 signal so it reaches the hard-to-reach bit of my house? Perhaps something to relay the signal from the part it does reach into the part it doesn't...

Thanks in advance x

Orange do a UMA service which is similar, but you must use a UMA compatible phone.

[moox]

I am in pretty much the same situation. I am with 3 and want to stay with them as they have the best coverage here, but it is still quite useless in my house. I have to lock my phone to GSM when at home to ensure that calls come through.

It is so borderline, placing my phone strategically can increase the signal no end. It's a shame that I'd have to lie on the floor to make a phone call over 3G though.

If only 3 would come out with a femtocell...