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Hi, I plan to drive to Colorado this summer, and I know I will lose signal. What is the best mobile signal boosters people have tried, and do they really work? I am with Sprint. I am willing to pay for an expensive unit as long as it works.
I drive from Montana to Florida twice a year. Coverage for all carriers are spotty in Montana and Wyoming, but Colorado it starts getting pretty decent again. What route are you taking? Take a look at the coverage maps of your service provider. I am on T-Mobile.
I drive from Montana to Florida twice a year. Coverage for all carriers are spotty in Montana and Wyoming, but Colorado it starts getting pretty decent again. What route are you taking? Take a look at the coverage maps of your service provider. I am on T-Mobile.
As remote as it gets, a back road south into the Beartooth mountains from Big Timber MT.
According to my own link, I'm covered on Verizon.
However, a trip south to the Wind River range is a different matter; very little in the way of coverage there.
My little brother rides ranches all day along the Texas/Mexico border. There are no cell phone towers close to the border. He tried all kinds of boosters and the difference was maybe as much as a 10% improvement. He also applied for a satellite phone but there was a waiting list for applicants. Apparently there is only so much room for the number of phones and bandwidth. He had to wait over a year until someone dropped off to get a satellite phone. He finally told them to forget it and now relies mostly on ranch house land lines.
Signal booster probably won't help at all out in the middle of nowhere
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Originally Posted by Cabernetkev
What is the best mobile signal boosters people have tried, and do they really work? I am with Sprint. I am willing to pay for an expensive unit as long as it works.
A signal booster still needs there to be some signal in order to function.
Why exactly are you concerned about temporarily losing signal?
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Originally Posted by normstad
I am on T-Mobile.
T-Mobile does pretty good as long as you stay on the Interstate highways.
If not willing to rent a satellite phone, next best option would be to look Sprint's coverage map, compare it to other carriers, once you find one which fills in some of the coverage gaps left by Sprint, pick up a PAYGo feature phone and set your main phone to forward unanswered calls to the backup phone.
Hi, I plan to drive to Colorado this summer, and I know I will lose signal. What is the best mobile signal boosters people have tried, and do they really work? I am with Sprint. I am willing to pay for an expensive unit as long as it works.
Honestly your problem is that you are with Sprint. My guess is that if you were with AT&T or Verizon you wouldn’t be asking this question.
Get a better provider. Sprint is notorious for their bad and spotty coverage. Go with Verizon or ATT.
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Signal booster probably won't help at all out in the middle of nowhere
