Are there any IPhone antenna signal booster available

You should have added,"In our area!" Don't lump us all in with your experience. We've had good service from Cingular/AT&T for nearly 20 years. I'll say again,"If we had a problem with coverage for our cell equipped ambulances, we'd find another provider." Some of us are satisfied with our AT&T service, OK?

Hey Patrick Murphy, sorry I didn't respond to your question earlier (away from a computer) but Mike Evangelist1 answered the way I would've. Yeah, I should've mentioned that I took my phone to the roof first to make sure I had a full signal.

Perhaps you don't know this trick, and it's VERY helpful: If you dial \ 3001#12345# on your phone and hit "call" you go into field test mode. If you choose "Cell Information" from the menu that comes up, it'll list all the towers you're connected to and their signals. From the research I did, the signal you want is below 80 (but I've never seen that). Before I bought the booster, the lowest number I got was 119 on about 7 or 8 towers, and with the booster, my top 2 entries (the only ones that will really come into play) hover around 82 to 84, which isn't bad.

But if you carry your phone around in field test mode, you can watch it update, and you don't necessarily need to put the antenna on the roof, you definitely want to put it where you consistently get the BEST signal.

You're thread is getting a little snarky -- and by the way it kind of mirrors one of my threads exactly -- so it'll probably get deleted soon, so be careful. Just don't reply to some of the others.

I did a **load of field testing with my iPhone and a bunch of friends' AT&T phones and my Verizon phone to try to determine whether my reception could be blamed on the phone or the service (you can probably find my thread, which was followed for about a month), driving all over my city with both in hand (L.A.) and the number one thing I found: it's AT&T not the phone. The number two thing I found: AT&T users don't even realize their service isn't good -- some of them suspected it, but some of them couldn't believe it when I would find a spot where their phone (and my iphone) would drop every fourth word, and when I handed them my Verizon phone (a Treo) to make the identical call from the identical spot, they didn't even have to talk loudly.

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I have found that just pluging in the down load cable to the iphone increases the signal strength. It doesn't need to be plugged into the computer or the charger. It also works with the car charger cable I bought from Radio Shack and you don't need to have it plugged in.

Great thread on the Apple iPhone forum about bad reception on the iPhone where you live. Curious now that this zBoost has helped, are you going to get AT&T to refund that cost of the zBoost? If yes, have you started that process and did they agree to do this?

Thanks

Thomas
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"There is some solace,though, in the fact that our family is not alone. As I type this I see the guy across the street out on his front lawn with his cell phone to take a call, which brings a smile to my face. Misery loves company, I guess."

You don't live on Sycamore Circle, do you? I take 90% of my phone calls in the front yard, the only place where I can get reception. A block in either direction is fine.

I don't think that is completely true. I previously had Sony Ericsson phone and my wife had a samsung. Both had excellent signal reception in and out of the house. We both upgraded a couple of months ago. I got the iphone and she got a new sony ericsson phone. She has still have very good signal strength (4-5bars) while I have 1-2 bars on my iphone in the house. Outside the house I get 4-5bars...

I have the ultimate fix for this problem. I live and work in New York. AT&T has deservedly the worst reputation as a phone carrier here. I love the iPhone, but had to buy a cheap phone from Verizon so I could make and receive phone calls. In southern Manhattan, if I get a single "bar" with AT&T I am lucky. I get excellent coverage with Verizon all over the city. Most of my friends in my office who bought iPhones have done the same thing and bought a second phone from Sprint or Verizon just to make phone calls, and reserve the iPhone as a cool toy.

In case anyone reads this thread down the road, I had to go the zBoost route. It did help enough to allow me to get my voicemails now <grin> I can make calls and receive calls as long as I am close to the zBoost. I went from no service to maybe 1 AT&T bar to now up to 5 bars if I am not holding the darn iPhone. **** antenna on the bottom. Anyway, if I leave my iPhone in a charging station about 6 feet from the zBoost, I get about 2 to 3 bars and enough if I use my bluetooth headset, can get calls OK now. Went from antenna readings in the high 90s to about 110 to now in the high 70s and 80s. Enough to make it all work for me.

I then called AT&T and worked with them. They gave me most my $311 back it cost me for the zBoost.

So, I am VERY happy with AT&T service. Nice job working with the customer. I show in cell range for my home so they gave me some $$ for my troubles in buying the zBoost to make it somewhat useable.

tj

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Seriously, AT&T had network coverage problems a few years ago, but I rarely see problems today.{quote}

Sadly around here, those problems are still very present.

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