El Mustachio
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2010
- Location
- Eastern Washington, USA
I know most of the cell phone related discussions on here tend to center on policies regarding employee usage and restrictions, but for those that need to use them for business I had something I wanted to share.
I know I can't be the only one that has horrible reception inside the shop due to working in a virtual bird cage of steel and wiring, so for anyone else with the same problem, we just installed our second cell phone signal repeater. This isn't our first time around the block, we've done this before, but what we installed last week really impressed me. We brought our signal up from -105 db to -65db. If I understand correctly, the best possible signal would be about -53db. First time around we used a zBoost 510 unit. It improved things noticeably, but seems like the last year I've had more complaints of dropped calls. So I did some looking around and found a newer design of the same concept with a heavier duty external antenna, zBoost 610. It took alot of trial and error to hone in on the best outside signal direction and almost as much work on the indoor placement of the repeater unit, but when it was all said and done we went from 0-1 bar signal to 4-5 indoors. I don't usually get too worked up about office equipment but this was impressive.
I don't really want to sound like a salesman, just figured I'm probably not the only one whose been having to walk outside to the parking lot to take a call from a vendor or customer and not drop it mid sentence.
I know I can't be the only one that has horrible reception inside the shop due to working in a virtual bird cage of steel and wiring, so for anyone else with the same problem, we just installed our second cell phone signal repeater. This isn't our first time around the block, we've done this before, but what we installed last week really impressed me. We brought our signal up from -105 db to -65db. If I understand correctly, the best possible signal would be about -53db. First time around we used a zBoost 510 unit. It improved things noticeably, but seems like the last year I've had more complaints of dropped calls. So I did some looking around and found a newer design of the same concept with a heavier duty external antenna, zBoost 610. It took alot of trial and error to hone in on the best outside signal direction and almost as much work on the indoor placement of the repeater unit, but when it was all said and done we went from 0-1 bar signal to 4-5 indoors. I don't usually get too worked up about office equipment but this was impressive.
I don't really want to sound like a salesman, just figured I'm probably not the only one whose been having to walk outside to the parking lot to take a call from a vendor or customer and not drop it mid sentence.