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Concave1142@lemmy.world 1 day agoThis is almost my exact problem. I am at the bottom of the hill of my neighborhood with terrible signal. It’s bad enough that Verizon and AT&T mobile carriers do not get signal at my house. I had to spin up a guest wifi ssid for visitors to have access on their mobile phones.
I think when I tried the OTA antenna I get maybe 3 channels.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I don’t know if Verizon of AT&T offer these but T-Mobile used to have small cellular sites you could basically rent them to plug into your wired internet and it would piggyback off your internet to make a small cellular hotspot to give you good cell signal. I had one when I lived out in the boonies for a while.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Carriers moved to VoIP for cell phones; they don’t do the fetmocells anymore.
Concave1142@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yea, I’m aware of those from working in telephony but cannot justify a DAS in my house, for visitors, when T-Mobile has perfect signal for us all through the house as well as the woods behind my house.
It’s just easier to have people log in to my guest wifi ssid since modern smartphones have moved to SMS/Voice allowed to go over a data network that isn’t cellular.
1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
It never occurred to me this use case for VoWiFi, I thought it was for voice quality.