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David Woodhouse
Feb 15, 2012, 7:50:12 AM2/15/12
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I don't know about the boosters, but Orange's "Signal Boost", which is
really just UMA (GSM-over-IPSec), works quite nicely here where I'm in a
similar situation.
The main difference is that I don't share your paranoia about hackers. I
don't have UPNP, but that's just because my network isn't afflicted with
NAT; everything in the house gets its own public IPv6 and Legacy IP
address.
But I *think* that UMA will work through NAT too, since it uses IPSec
over UDP transport. As long as UDP gets out and back (on the same
ports), it should be fine.
really just UMA (GSM-over-IPSec), works quite nicely here where I'm in a
similar situation.
The main difference is that I don't share your paranoia about hackers. I
don't have UPNP, but that's just because my network isn't afflicted with
NAT; everything in the house gets its own public IPv6 and Legacy IP
address.
But I *think* that UMA will work through NAT too, since it uses IPSec
over UDP transport. As long as UDP gets out and back (on the same
ports), it should be fine.
Chris Blunt
Feb 15, 2012, 9:31:06 AM2/15/12
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:35:08 +0000, Peter
<occassional...@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
>I live in the countryside where we have virtually no signal. One has
>to go outdoors to get anything. The least bad is Vodafone on which we
>get a marginal signal if standing next to a patio door, and that is
>why I recently moved to Voda (because nowadays a lot of people call
>your mobile # as a matter of course, rather than your home #) despite
>them being a lot more pricey than say T-M for a comparable product.
>
>There are quite a few booster products around e.g.
>http://www.gsmbooster.co.uk/
>
>How well do these boosters work?
I believe these devices would be illegal. Only the licensed networks
are permitted to transmit signals on the frequencies used for mobiles.
Chris
<occassional...@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
>I live in the countryside where we have virtually no signal. One has
>to go outdoors to get anything. The least bad is Vodafone on which we
>get a marginal signal if standing next to a patio door, and that is
>why I recently moved to Voda (because nowadays a lot of people call
>your mobile # as a matter of course, rather than your home #) despite
>them being a lot more pricey than say T-M for a comparable product.
>
>There are quite a few booster products around e.g.
>http://www.gsmbooster.co.uk/
>
>How well do these boosters work?
I believe these devices would be illegal. Only the licensed networks
are permitted to transmit signals on the frequencies used for mobiles.
Chris
alexd
Feb 15, 2012, 2:41:01 PM2/15/12
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Peter (for it is he) wrote:
> The problem is that (I assume the boosters need an outdoor aerial of
> some sort) even outdoors the signal is marginal - about 2 bars out of
> 5, on a Nokia phone.
Your outdoor antenna would be directional, so you'd have to point it in
the general direction of the base station, but it would have more gain
than the omni antenna in your handset.
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> The problem is that (I assume the boosters need an outdoor aerial of
> some sort) even outdoors the signal is marginal - about 2 bars out of
> 5, on a Nokia phone.
Your outdoor antenna would be directional, so you'd have to point it in
the general direction of the base station, but it would have more gain
than the omni antenna in your handset.
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Roland Perry
Feb 15, 2012, 4:53:25 PM2/15/12
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In message <fe2nj7t8fbb65ho6q...@4ax.com>, at 10:35:08 on
Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Peter <occassional...@nospam.co.uk> remarked:
don't seem to have any 3G and the throughput on GPRS is in effect nil.
Bad show, chaps.
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Roland Perry
Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Peter <occassional...@nospam.co.uk> remarked:
>I live in the countryside where we have virtually no signal. One has
>to go outdoors to get anything. The least bad is Vodafone on which we
>get a marginal signal if standing next to a patio door
I've just come back from a day at Lancaster University, where Vodafone
>to go outdoors to get anything. The least bad is Vodafone on which we
>get a marginal signal if standing next to a patio door
don't seem to have any 3G and the throughput on GPRS is in effect nil.
Bad show, chaps.
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Steve Terry
Feb 15, 2012, 6:11:13 PM2/15/12
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Peter wrote:
> I live in the countryside where we have virtually no signal. One has
> to go outdoors to get anything. The least bad is Vodafone on which we
> I live in the countryside where we have virtually no signal. One has
> to go outdoors to get anything. The least bad is Vodafone on which we
> get a marginal signal if standing next to a patio door, and that is
> why I recently moved to Voda
<snip>
> why I recently moved to Voda
>
The tried and tested method is to use a Nokia Cark91 car kit
with a 12volt PSU and a Nokia 6310i plugged into it.
and for the aerial something like:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/900Mhz-GSM-Booster-beam-Antenna-Aerial-/220750286949?pt=UK_AudioElectronicsVideo_Video_TelevisionSetTopBoxes&hash=item3365be1065#ht_941wt_944
The Cark91 uses a FME coax connector so what ever aerial you get
it'll have to connect or adapt to that
Steve Terry
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