3g/4g repeaters/boosters

Totally illegal and I do not condone their usage.

But for research purposes, anyon experience one? they seem to go up in value for the amount of area you need to boost, which of course is small in Motorhome, so the cheaper options should be viable.

They are only illegal if you get caught

I never knew such thing existed,
With the roll out of 4g in most populated areas would a 4g one be better?

Never knew they were illegal, just as well I never got one

Think I have this right........

A repeater may help, but it seems to be more for getting a signal into a building that has a crap signal inside but a good one outside. It may help in boosting a signal, making it stronger, but I think a MiFi shoved up a pole or attached to a good aerial, would have the same affect.

Problem I am having is finding a good enough aerial, or reading reviews on something that is good.

This is interesting: http://www.motorhomewifi.com/p…er-pack-3/

So is: http://www.solwise.co.uk/3g-antenna-outdoor.htm

Cheers Tom.

It all seems a bit 'too good to be true' some of the claims on articles I have been reading. I have a 4G aerial for my mifi, it makes no difference whatsoever to signal, sometimes making it worse, currently in discussions with MotorhomeWiFi where I bought it, wether it is faulty or another outside factor affecting it.

from Solwise site...... this is from the most expensive antenna's info..



There are websites that give information on masts, but being in line of site of one could be pretty tricky when out and about in the MH. So Omni directional seems to be the way forward if going for an aerial.

Just for some more confusion, 4g requires two leads going into a MiFi but a Omni Directional one on Solwise site that claims to be 4G only has one lead........... This One

Think I'll email Solwise for some advice.

This is very interesting: 3g 4g wifiHERE

Meant for boats, Sat Wifi it seems:

http://www.glomex.it/webboat/f…4G_ENG.pdf

Satellite WiFi for £199 - that can't be true, hmmm

EDIT: I see it must be some wort of directional WiFi from land.

This doesn't help...

http://www.glomex.it/leisure/eng/antenna-internet-IT2000.php

OK, I'm started to think about this so I'll share what I know upon my experience.

Those 3G signal boosters are, as Ally said, intended for when you have good signal outside but due to thick walls, you don't get anything inside. So won't do the trick unless the problem is your MH being a bunker, which is most unlikely.

What we all need is an omnidirectional antena capable of extending the reach of our little phone/mifi antennas to reach to that poor signal on the other side. Unfortunately, wireless signals do depend on line of sight, buildings, mountains and even water (specially salty one) will cause interference.

Only antennas I know capables of going over water over great distances are microwaves antennas, which is what big boats (yachts) will have and even then they'll rely on satellite when in deep sea.

So, an omnidirectional antenna attached to a MiFi or booster will only help if you get a week signal, but if you're getting EDGE or no data at all, you'll most likely only get a stronger EDGE, unless you're just out of reach.

In my area I have this problem when I go out to the beach, unless it's very close to a town it's most likely that I'll have poor to no signal, which sucks to spend the night (say what you will analog rebels, I want my Netflix).

I'll start doing some more research about antenna, but very interested on this.

A few years back I would just hooked up an Access Point with a big omnidirectional (Ubiquity, TPLink or similar), but now these days most WiFi are password protected and pretty secured, so it'll only make sense in situations where you're in a camp site and they only have signal on the main building and you actually know the password. But not ideal for wild camping....


Cheers,
Rami

Getting great results with this: forum/topic.php?p=106684#real106684