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Wireless Extenders Cell Phone Signal Booster - 800MHz YX500-CEL
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List Price: $299.00
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- Easy installation
- Covers up to 2500 sq ft
- Extends the battery life of the cell phone
- Can be used to replace the land line
- Unit brings the outside signal inside, where you need it the most
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Editorial Reviews:
The Wi-Ex zBoost cell zone signal booster is a revolutionary, patent-pending new product that improves indoor cell phone coverage. zBoost captures the wireless signal outside, brings it inside and enhances, or boosts it - extending a Cell Zone in your home or office or your car.The zBoost YX500-CEL works with all phones on the 800MHz frequency. Includes some models of Verizon and Cingular and others.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful!
Comment: Works as advertised! Had 0-1 bars before. Now, 4-5 throughout a single level 1500 sq ft house. Antenna placement and base station placement is critical. Had found the ideal locations within one hour...
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Summary: Great!
Comment: I live in an older apartment building on the second floor that doesn't get good service inside. I am using an iPhone with AT&T. Normally, I would not get any service inside except right near the windows and even that was spotty. If I held my phone out the window I would get 3-5 bars of service.
After installing the YX500-CEL, I now get 3-5 bars of service everywhere in my 800sq ft apartment. Unfortunately, I think AT&T uses the 1900mhz band for 3G so I might upgrade to the YX510.
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Summary: Didn't Live up to Expectations
Comment: We installed this unit as instructed. Once in place, my phone showed 4 bars beside the transmitter. As soon as I tried to dial my phone, it quickly dropped to <1 bar, and the phone call was dropped each time.
I did not have any luck with this item, and thankfully Amazon accepted the return with no problems.
Customer Rating:
Summary: More bars? yes. Better quality signal? no.
Comment: After setting this up per the instructions, I now receive full bars anywhere inside my apartment. However, this does NOT translate to any better signal quality to my phone. I have AT&T service in Chicago, which is utilizing the ~ 850MHz range. I bought the 800MHz model.
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Summary: Works Extremely Well
Comment: I had a weak signal and my service provider broadcasts at 1900 Mhz and 800 Mhz in my area. Initially, I purchased the 1900 Mhz YX-500-PCS. However, the 1900 Mhz signal was not getting to my house because higher frequency signals are not as robust as low frequency signals. I exchanged the YX-500-PCS for the YX-500-CEL that operates in the 800 Mhz range, and the "CEL" version did an excellent job of solving my problem.
Where before we had a very poor signal on the first floor of our house, we now get a full-strength signal within about five feet of the base unit and a very good signal within about 25 feet of the base unit. The unit basically broadcasts on one floor but does seem to provide some additional strength on our second floor.
Note that antenna placement is key, particularly where the terrain is not flat. We experimented with several locations. Also, the antenna fits snugly into the wide end of gray three-quarter inch PVC electrical conduit if you want to run the coax through the conduit and protect the connections of an antenna set-up that is outside and grounded. In our installation, the conduit is secured to the side of our house and extends above the roof. An LB or "T" access fitting can be used to protect the coax grounding connector. I used the LB fitting along with a right angle coax connector that was connected to the grounding connector and then used "Gorilla Tape" to seal the LB fitting where the coax and ground wire exit. I'll see how the tape works.
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