External Antenna - Booster

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In <md60e.2250$H06.1382@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink. net> on Wed, 23 Mar 2005
04:25:54 GMT, "Todd Copeland" <todd@copelandhome.net> wrote:

>"NSS123" <NSS123.1mbtma@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote in message
>news:NSS123.1mbtma@WiFi-Forum_dot_com...
>> Can you please tell me how effective this is to boost the signal
>> strenght?
>> Will this cause my mobile to show more weak signal than before after
>> stopping the use of this Booster?
>
>General concenceous is that they do not increase the phones ability to pick
>up a signal.

It's important to distinguish between passive signal boosters, which are
useless, and real external antennas (e.g., ARC Freedom Antenna
<http://www.antennas.com/arcProduct.html>), active signal boosters
(amplifiers), and active repeaters (expensive), which can be quite effective.

>The manufactures of phones follow certain guidelines to make the antenna
>pick up a certain frequency as best as possible.

True, but performance is nonetheless seriously compromised by making the
antenna small enough to fit in a small phone, and by limiting transmit power
in order to increase battery life.

>If you think a booster will work, I know where you can also get a hunk of
>tin to put on your air cleaner so you will get 20 more hp.

The products I've listed above do work, albeit at a cost.

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