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Signal Booster for Sprint Clients
I used to use Sprint's Magic Box Gen 3 as a signal booster as I live in a rural area and the reception is very poor. Since T-Mobile took over Sprint, they discontinued the Magic Box in March which le...
at 8 miles out a butterflies fart could affect the 5G signal lol. figure usually by 5ish miles your phone should be switching to a different tower..
in most cases that i have seen so far 5G is a bit hit and miss..some places the speeds will be screaming..if youre in a more rural area you’ll have it but it’ll be right on par with 5G speeds if that..for the moment you can switch to 4G only and see if your speeds improve or if you travel quite a bit you might just opt to keep it on 5G and let it switch to it when its available.
how are your 4G speeds?
Came on here to find more info on a MagicBox alternative. Ok...I consider myself an expert in this arena as I have 2 MBs and have been a Sprint customers forever. Now a T-mobile customer by force altho they have been good as of late. I literally just got off the phone to return the CellSpot as it 100% requires an internet connection. This is NOT the same as WiFi as WiFi is an extension of "Internet Connection" which you need 1st BEFORE you can use WiFi. So technically yes...the CellSpot doesn't "need WiFi" but is DOES need an ethernet hardline...otherwise it won't work. For most, the CellSpot becomes redundant since most new phones will offer a togglento turn ON "WiFi-calling". Check your phone and use it if you have a WiFi network in your home or business. This WiFi calling pretty much works anywhere with a WiFi signal. I have a Samsung A71 phone and Im pretty sure most later Samsung phones have the feature. The CellSpot uses your internet connection (Xfinity in my case) and doesn't use a drop of the T-mobile exterior network to give you a signal. The CellSpot ALSO turns into a T-mobile cellular repeater meaning it will (or has capabilities to) connect outside cellphones THRU your internet for their benefit. That's a NO for me. Nevermind the creeper chold molester driving past on his/her phone pinging off my internet...T-mobile isn't paying me to make their system work better, right?
So...onto you having a few bars signal and no internet...introduce the T-mobile Gateway. Great piece. We had TWO whole bars of signal and the Silver Cased (new one is black) Gateway grabbed that signal and gave us 40+mbps flow...enough to watch 2 TVs worth of shows with minimal glitches. They say to use an external router and turn the Gateway settings from router to modem...and the flow will be even better (as the Gateway antennas and RAM gets bogged down when all your devices latch onto it). Call T-mobile for the device, do NOT check online as it may tell you it's not available...because they can see you have a weak signal tower, etc. I called...BOOM! Sent me one in 2days. Found my signal after trying a few windows. Set it up on the TWO bars we had... Ran great! $40-50 a month no contract no cancel fees. Literally you become a guinea pig for testing and that's a good thing. This held us over til the Xfinity came outnfor connection after a year wait. T-mobile took the Gateway back no probs. No issues. I plan to buy P2P wifi extenders for my metal shop. So there is that. Perhaps you folks can get an indoor WiFi extender for work etc if you can figure out your WiFi-calling deal...or dig in your phone settings to turn on other features to grab your work or home wifi signal better. Internet is your friend.
Now...lets pop open this MagicBox and see if a T-mobile SIM Carb will wake her up…
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