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How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection?

Posted by timothy on from the high-quality-tin-can dept.

ganjadude writes "So I am moving to a location where the cell signal is very poor (I don't get signal inside my house), and I have been looking at wireless extenders such as the ones that Sprint and Verizon have. I am brought down by the cost (Sprint charges monthly, Verizon $250 up front, AT&T.... well they are AT&T). Being that this is Slashdot, and a lot of us live in basements (I kid!), I assume that some of the crowd has had this issue in the past. What have you done, or what alternatives are available to someone in such a situation?"

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  1. Wifi by alop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use google voice, over wifi while at home.
    If you have T-Mobile and a blackberry device, you have use UMA over wifi as well.

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    --alop
    1. Re:Wifi by arth1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If finding a solution to the actual problem of not being able to respond to phone calls is what's important, may I suggest an alternative workaround?

      Forward your cell phone to a land line in your basement.

  2. Verizon Network Extender by rbphilip · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can almost always talk them down to $150, and mine works flawlessly. Best $150 I ever spent. My (basement!) office now has great cell service, as does the rest of my house.

  3. Re:FRAST PRAST by gnapster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry if I'm being dense, but is this not precisely what the original poster means by 'wireless extenders' which he doesn't want to pay the company for? ($250 in Verizon's case, and he has looked at AT&T.)

  4. Re:FRAST PRAST by sonicmerlin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Soapbox? It's a legitimate gripe. It's nuts that you have to pay AT&T to use your *paid for* net connection to take the load off their network. They should be paying you.