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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?
Sprintcustomer wrote:Hola fireguy_6364,
I just saw your reply, thank you. Since then I have bought a signal booster (not cheap) and I have 5G on all of my phones now, as well as 4 or 5 bars. I have been thinking of getting a signal booster but didn't want to spend so much money as I am not sure if that'll work. I decided to try it and have no regrets whatsoever. The only problem is that the phones have to be close to the booster (about 5 feet). But that's not a problem since I work at home and I can put the booster next to me. Even if I am not near the booster, I still get better reception with 4G Lite. And my streaming has been improved tremendously.
When I travel, I usually have no problem getting 5G.
Man I really hate when T-Mobile lies to their customers. You're past that already since you bought one but they discontinued the boosters and won't bring them back.
As for your booster I'm glad to hear you have descent signal now but remember you're getting up to LTE Signal boosts because they aren't allowed to boost the signal bands T-Mobile uses for their 5G. I've looked into it and you'd have to get commercial grade boosters to do that but I'm not positive if they do either based on my research.
I did the same as you and spent $$$on a booster. Not set up yet but be careful. You say within 5 feet from booster/antennae. There hasn't been enough publicly released studies on the harm these waves do to the body. I know that the new 5G tech has been weaponized in the military for many years now so be careful hanging too close to your booster/antennae.
I don't know about you but I'm on the highest plan they have and to need to purchase my own booster is ridiculous and at the very least should get some kind of monthly plan discount. Currently my download speeds average 0.5mbps and float around the - 105 to - 120 dbm and that is ridiculously slow but phone and text are 100%.4 and 5 bars of 5GUC all day long but crappy data signal in an area flooded with 5GUC/Extended Range and LTE
Makes no sense.
