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[TheBoy]

As regular members here will know, Vodafone doesn't work where I live.  I may get a signal if I stand in the road, or sit on the fence at bottom of garden.


So, Vodafone have just flyered the estate with their solution...


No, they are no sticking up a mast, or improving the signal. Oh no.


They want ME to give THEM £50 for a box that plugs into MY broadband so THEY can use MY internet connection to provide the service I pay them for using MY connectivity!

The cheeky little buggers. Needless to say, the flyer is being return to them with no stamp, and no details fill out.

[JamesV6CDX]

Unbelievable!!

[TheBoy]

Still, Vodafone's coverage map suggests I get a good signal anyway. Lying sods     

[TheBoy]

This is the heap of horseshit they want me to buy

http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=templateCClamp&pageID=PPP_0161


Foreskin earwarmers!

[tunnie]

Vodafones lack of intelligence / incompetence runs deeper, as i have been finding out today with their techies 

[Lazydocker]

I must confess... I've been looking into options to boost the signal in my area after hearing about this. It seems I can buy a kit for £200+ which will boost the mobile signal (outside has a reasonable signal, just inside which suffers) and "broadcast" it into the house

Alternatively there has been some success in using a couple of TV aerials, one pointed towards the mast and one pointing downwards inside the loft space) linked with some coax. I'm a bit sceptical

Any thoughts from the experts? :-?

[Marks DTM Calib]

I must confess... I've been looking into options to boost the signal in my area after hearing about this. It seems I can buy a kit for £200+ which will boost the mobile signal (outside has a reasonable signal, just inside which suffers) and "broadcast" it into the house

Alternatively there has been some success in using a couple of TV aerials, one pointed towards the mast and one pointing downwards inside the loft space) linked with some coax. I'm a bit sceptical
Any thoughts from the experts? :-?

Lol, think the narrow bandwidth of your average Yagi and the losses involved would make that pretty in-effective!

[Kevin Wood]

I must confess... I've been looking into options to boost the signal in my area after hearing about this. It seems I can buy a kit for £200+ which will boost the mobile signal (outside has a reasonable signal, just inside which suffers) and "broadcast" it into the house

Alternatively there has been some success in using a couple of TV aerials, one pointed towards the mast and one pointing downwards inside the loft space) linked with some coax. I'm a bit sceptical

Any thoughts from the experts? :-?

200 Quid is a bit steep for a start. That's a lot of phone calls.

TV aerials is unlikely to work, as said.

First thing you need to know is what band your phone works on.

You might have some luck with an external antenna if it's designed for the correct frequency and if you attach it to a "car kit" for your phone (and hence only use it in one location in the house) but I doubt "re-radiating" a signal will work due to the losses, as said.

It is a bit rich expecting customer to pay for their own infrastructure so that Vodafone can then charge them to use it.  I wonder how many fools they have snared with that one.

Never mind, Jaime, maybe one of your neighbours will get one. 

Kevin

[TheBoy]

I must confess... I've been looking into options to boost the signal in my area after hearing about this. It seems I can buy a kit for £200+ which will boost the mobile signal (outside has a reasonable signal, just inside which suffers) and "broadcast" it into the house

Alternatively there has been some success in using a couple of TV aerials, one pointed towards the mast and one pointing downwards inside the loft space) linked with some coax. I'm a bit sceptical

Any thoughts from the experts? :-?

200 Quid is a bit steep for a start. That's a lot of phone calls.

TV aerials is unlikely to work, as said.

First thing you need to know is what band your phone works on.

You might have some luck with an external antenna if it's designed for the correct frequency and if you attach it to a "car kit" for your phone (and hence only use it in one location in the house) but I doubt "re-radiating" a signal will work due to the losses, as said.

It is a bit rich expecting customer to pay for their own infrastructure so that Vodafone can then charge them to use it.  I wonder how many fools they have snared with that one.

Never mind, Jaime, maybe one of your neighbours will get one. 

Kevin

No bugger around here uses Vodafone, as it doesn't work .  This be Cellnet country (or whatever they call themselves now)

[zirk]

I must confess... I've been looking into options to boost the signal in my area after hearing about this. It seems I can buy a kit for £200+ which will boost the mobile signal (outside has a reasonable signal, just inside which suffers) and "broadcast" it into the house

Alternatively there has been some success in using a couple of TV aerials, one pointed towards the mast and one pointing downwards inside the loft space) linked with some coax. I'm a bit sceptical

Any thoughts from the experts? :-?

Not sure about the TV Aerials bit but a few years back I installed on a Pub, in the middle of no where, a 9db GSM Colinear Antenna on top of 6m mast, run some Andrew Heliax from the chimney stack down to inside the Pub which was then terminated with a small simple GSM Dipole in the Pub corner, with some suprisingly good results (Voda and O2 only though). 

[ScottieMV6]

Interestingly I had exactly the opposite problem here. Vodafone is the only network that gives a signal in our house.

I looked at that signal booster thing and thought exactly the same

[Kevin Wood]

Not sure about the TV Aerials bit but a few years back I installed on a Pub, in the middle of no where, a 9db GSM Colinear Antenna on top of 6m mast, run some Andrew Heliax from the chimney stack down to inside the Pub which was then terminated with a small simple GSM Dipole in the Pub corner, with some suprisingly good results (Voda and O2 only though). 

Ahh, yes. Can't beat a bit of "Donkey's dork" when you need a low loss feeder.

 

Kevin

[Lazydocker]

I must confess... I've been looking into options to boost the signal in my area after hearing about this. It seems I can buy a kit for £200+ which will boost the mobile signal (outside has a reasonable signal, just inside which suffers) and "broadcast" it into the house

Alternatively there has been some success in using a couple of TV aerials, one pointed towards the mast and one pointing downwards inside the loft space) linked with some coax. I'm a bit sceptical
Any thoughts from the experts? :-?

Lol, think the narrow bandwidth of your average Yagi and the losses involved would make that pretty in-effective!

That was what I was thinking... Sure 3 is GSM 1800

[Martin_1962]

Ours goes via WIFi

[Radiomarko]

The TV antenna & the pro install others mentioned are examples of Passive Repeaters. They do work... but the untuned TV antenna trick is just a bit too Heath Robinson!