Description
The weBoost Home MultiRoom cell signal booster boosts network speeds across all carriers for up to three rooms. Users will experience faster data speeds, better voice quality, fewer dropped calls and superior streaming capability. The Home MultiRoom works with all U. S. carriersincluding Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and more. Its also compatible with all phones and cellular devices, allowing multiple users to simultaneously enjoy enhanced cell signal coverage in your home; regardless of the carrier they use. The outside antenna features an adjustable clamp that attaches to a roof-top vent pipe or standard antenna pole, or you can attach the antenna to the side of your home with the included mounting bracket. For added versatility and convenience, the inside antenna can either be placed on a shelf or mounted on a wall.Professionally inspected and refurbished by weBoost, these kits are just like new and come with a full 1 Year Manufacturer warranty with all genuine components. Same great quality with a piece of mind!
Thomas Paine –
Really a huge improvement!
I had an old (6+years) Wilson 460101 amplifier which is only for one room, our living room. It did pretty good for what it was given our outside signal is extremely poor (~-100 dbm) and the house has a metal roof with hardy board (think cement) siding. However, outside that one room, everyplace else in the house sucked for signal.I saw these refurbished 470144 units (multi-room) and given the price savings jumped on them. I got a huge improvement over the old unit even in the living room (12 dbm improvement) and good signal throughout the house (1800 sqft), ranging from -75 to -87 dbm. Now remember, I said our outside reception is extremely poor (~-100) so this is a great improvement and the phones work perfectly now in all areas of the house for voice and data. Are the signal levels perfect? No, and it never will be given our rural location and all the trees but it’s a huge improvement. We consider the refurbish unit a very good deal (compare the price to new unit) as it solved our problem.EDIT: One last thing, I notice many people are still using the bars on their phones to determine the signal level. This is wrong. The bars are a ‘relative’ reading and 4 bars on one phone could be 3 bars on another phone or etc. On Android phones look SETTINGS>ABOUT PHONE>STATUS INFORMATION>SIM CARD STATUS>SIGNAL STRENGTH and there will be a ‘dBM and asu’ reading. For example, mine currently says -96 dBm 44 asu. These are just two different ways to measure the signal level, probably dBm is a more common method. You should take a measurement outside and then using the same phone measure inside near the WeBoost interior antenna to see your maximum signal increase. You should always see an increase. This amp will give at maximum a 65 dB increase but that also depends on your outside signal level/quality. A great signal is in the -50s dBm, a decent signal is -70s dBm and it goes downhill from there… My signal now is generally in the -90s (in the house) and while this is not a good signal, I can still operate voice and data normally. Note: my signal level deteriorated when the area removed 3G support ~3 months ago; however, it hasn’t seemed to affect my phone connection.Negatives: None really but if forced to be overly critical, I think they could explain a bit better for optimum placement of the inside antenna.Recommendations: Place outside antenna as high as possible (height is might!) and ensure you weatherize the connector with coax tape.Note: I used my own outside RG-6 cable (50 feet) since my run exceeded 30 feet and if I used the included cables I would have had to stick two together using the provided adapter, while okay, I didn’t want to do that, so I used a high-quality, quad-shielded RG-6 even better than what was provided. I add this tidbit, so folks know they have that option. I will probably get a shorter inside cable in the near future.
S. Brannon –
It worked but did not solve our reception problems
We live in a somewhat rural area and we live along a river, so the area is fairly low. We have pool coverage, so we bought this unit to try to improve our reception. The booster worked but our phones would constantly switch between two different cells and that resulted in dropped calls or difficulty being heard. With no real improvement in our phone service, we reluctantly returned the unit.I gave the unit 4 stars because it worked and I don’t believe that the switching problem was caused by the booster. Our iPhones apparently look for the strongest signal and, because we have 2 cells that have about the same strength and their signal strengths vary constantly, the phones constantly hunt for a signal. There is no way that we know of to stop the phone from doing this.
Amazon Customer –
Refurbished parts still defective. Inspect immediately.
Started my install just to find out my internal booster was defective. Cost me a couple of hours and had to take everything down and send it back. I would have been happy if they just offered to send me the part I needed and save me some time but returning was the only option.Also, in my opinion they don’t include long enough cables. You need to have your outside antenna 20’ vertically or 50’ horizontally way from your inside antenna AND have them facing opposite directions. In my case the included cables weren’t even close to get the required distance.I reordered another cell booster that has longer cables included.
Waterlu –
This is not Plug and Play
This is our 2nd unit. The first and larger unit we mounted in my husband’s shop housed in a metal building. It worked wonderfully. But in the house, we only had 1 bar of signal and the phone would continually hang-up on me. We needed a multi- room unit there. Fortunately we have a TV tower we could mount the antenna/receiver to point to a cell signal (tower). Ran cable through the attic to the kitchen where we had cable connections thru the ceiling behind the TV. Mounted the amplifier to the wall and ran cable across the top of our kitchen cabinets to the inside wall in the middle of the house and mounted the transmitter. After plugging it in and it worked, we adjusted the antenna outside on the tower for optimum signal. And were thrilled to receive 5 bars! Now I can even use my 4g phone as a hot spot.
S. Mcafee –
Excellent Product! Works Perfectly
We barely got 1 bar (Verizon) and cell reception was virtually unusable. Super easy install and setup and we now have a solid 4 bar reception. Could not be happier.
Lee Bates –
Performance questionable.
It did not appear that the device was able to increase the cell signal by any significant amount. I have 1-1/2 bars of AT&T in a very rural Colorado mountain area and after installing the booster the signal was still not stable enough to have a conversation without dropping the call. Text messaging did not appear to improve and we had to walk around the building to find an area where the service was strong enough to push through. Reminds me of the old Verizon commercial where the caller walks around and says “can you hear me now?”. Very pricey product for very little improvement. FYI- It was installed exactly by the book according to directions. I am an electrical engineer and capable of installing this type of product for best results, which we did not achieve.
Anom1945 –
Great device
good as new. my old wison signal boot dt was good for 10′, this does 25′ +
Andrea D. –
Stopped working after one year
Stopped working after one year. Unable to return after 30 days. Manufacturer said to return to seller.
Dean –
dont buy it does not work and technical support said there was nothing they could do
does not work
gregory mitchell –
Bad unit, worse return policy.
The booster was installed, and worked fine for a little over 30 days. Of course, just after the return period was up, the booster stopped working. I sincerely hope that someone in the company sees this review and makes this right. I was hoping to get more life out of the product that a few weeks!