Product Description

The Wi-Ex zBoost cell zone signal booster is a revolutionary, patent-pending new product that improves indoor cell phone coverage. zBoost captures the wireless signal outside, brings it inside and enhances, or boosts it - extending a Cell Zone in your home or office or your car.The zBoost YX500-CEL works with all phones on the 800MHz frequency. Includes some models of Verizon and Cingular and others.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #534 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: white
• Brand: Wireless Extenders
• Model: YX500-CEL
• Released on: 2005-12-17
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 2.00" w x 5.00" l, 4.50 pounds

Features

• Easy installation
• Covers up to 2500 sq ft
• Extends the battery life of the cell phone
• Can be used to replace the land line
• Unit brings the outside signal inside, where you need it the most

Customer Reviews

works better than expected
My house is on the wrong side of a small hill in a wooded area and has no reliable cell phone coverage, and had unreliable coverage in a couple little lucky spots. I have a yagi antenna on the roof aimed toward the cell sites, lightning arrestor, and a 50' cable coming in from the attic going to the basement, and up to the first floor office. Here the Wireless Extender attaches. I went from nothing to 20-80 percent of the signal bars depending on where I am in the house. The cell phones now have good signal and function properly.

Solves the problem
This signal booster does exactly what it's supposed to do. As long as you have some detectable line-of-sight signal at some reasonably accessible location within the 50 feet of the supplied coax cable, it will boost your cellphone reception to full signal. You have to pay attention to the instructions, however, and of course make sure that you have the correct frequency for your cellular network. I am very pleased with the results - the initial try out took only a few minutes to find a suitable location for the antenna and the transmitter unit before tidying it up to make the installation acceptable to my wife! We went from zero bars inside the house to five - even saturation if you get too close to the transmitter unit. This was a very good buy.

It works!
My cell phone reception has definitely improved; however, be ready to experiment a lot with placement of antenna and base unit. I almost gave up after crawling around in my attic for two days, but finally was able to get antenna and base unit placed in an area that provided better cell coverage through most of my 2,000 sq ft home.