2024 the best cell phone booster review
Price: $499.99 - $424.99
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Elevate your road trips to new heights with the weBoost Drive Reach, the ultimate portable cell phone signal booster. Whether you're navigating through cityscapes or the fringes of the grid, Drive Reach provides the strongest signal boost allowed by the FCC, keeping you connected.
Designed to amplify connectivity for multiple devices in your vehicle, this cellular booster is a game-changer for cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans. It's compatible with all major U.S., Canada, and Mexico carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Dish, and US Cellular. This versatile companion for your travels ensures that your mobile office and entertainment needs are covered. The Drive Reach is easy to install without tools, and with the support of the weBoost app, you'll be up and running in no time.
Ready to tackle the latest 5G technology, the Drive Reach ensures that you're prepared for the fastest service available. Say goodbye to dropped calls and buffering frustrations with this sleek, powerful device. The weBoost Drive Reach is your gateway to staying connected, wherever your journey takes you.
Whether road-tripping in an RV, traveling cross-country in a big rig, living in a rural area or in the bustling city, or building a new home or commercial property in a location that struggles with weak signal, our award-winning cell phone signal boosters have you covered without any subscription fees. The weBoost brand stands apart from its competition for its superior customer service, partnerships, and products that are proudly designed, assembled, and tested in the USA. We continue to innovate, develop, and pioneer technology as the industry market leader. We hold over 250 cellular signal amplification patents.
Reaches The Farthest Cell Towers And Boosts Signal For Multiple Devices
Compatible With All U.S. Carriers, Including Verizon, At&T, T-Mobile, And Us Cellular
Supports The Latest In 5G Technology, Providing The Best Speed And Service Possible On Any Smartphone
FCC approvedWith 50 Db Max Gain - FC ID PWO460061
Weboost Provides Expert U.S.-Based Customer Support Through Our App, Chat, Phone, Or Email, And We Guarantee Our Products With A Two-Year Warranty
Reviewer: Captain Velevt
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Better than Expected
Review: First the good news. The booster works. I get signal in several places where I never did before and most other places where low signal strength made sending and receiving files a pain I have enough signal now to get them through. Overall it is absolutely worth itNow the bad news and there are several drawbacks from this product, in order from biggest problem to smallest. 1) the range on the internal antenna is horrible. I seem to lose half of my increased signal between 6 and 8 inches away and there is no way for my daughter and I to both benefit at the same time on road trips. 2) Some places it doesn't help much at all and there is no rhyme or reason why. In the parking lot of a local store the boost is from -97 to -95. The park 3 blocks away boost from -101 to -88. Why doesn't it work at the store? Who knows? 3) if you have absolutely no signal it won't help. This at least makes sense. Double nothing is still nothing. And 4) it uses a cigarette lighter port for power instead of USB. Some cars don't even have lighter ports anymore and even those that do have many more USB ports than lighters
Reviewer: Subiemage
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works well, boosts signal in areas of low signal.
Review: I previously had a weboost cradle type booster, which worked decently well but we wanted to be able to use more phones at the same time and so we purchased this booster. It is more expensive but works really well, much better than the cradle booster that I had before. Yes, you have to be near the inner antenna, but I installed it between the front seats of the car and it works really well. We like dispersed camping in national forests and are often out of cellular range but using the we boost always goes from no service to 2-3 bars at our favorite campsite. We don't always leave it on as it chews through the deep cycle battery which also powers our fridge/freezer but it totally worth it when you need the connectivity to download maps, make contact with family, get texts and emails, or just get on Facebook/insta/etc.I have also added the OTC antenna to our setup as well as using the fin antenna that came with my original driveSleek cradle (since I mounted it in the car already and the connectors/impedance are the same). With the new booster, we haven't had to pull out the OTC antenna yet but if we get really deep in the backcountry and need signal, we will get it that way.Keep in mind, if there is no signal at all, you won't have any signal. If there is a very weak signal, this thing will help the tower hear your phone. There are still a very few places that we don't have any signal (deep hollows in the woods, etc) but it definitely extends the reach of the phone, enough that spending the money was worth it to us.
Reviewer: YuenX
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: WeBoost worked/didn't work. HiBoost works as well at a lower price
Review: I go camping and hiking a lot where cell phone signal usually is very spotty, and I also live in an area that practically is dead for AT&T and T-Mobile and barely registers a bar for Verizon. A cell phone booster was provided by T-Mobile for home use and though the receiver shows 1-2 bars, we still only get spotty coverage inside the home.There is something VERY important to keep in mind about signal boosters: they are exactly that... BOOSTERS. They can only BOOST wherever some signal exists. If there is NO signal, then there is nothing to boost. Stronger signals get a stronger boost. With all that in mind, let's go over my quest to find a cell booster that would work for me.For the Superbars, HiBoost, and WeBoost, I installed them according to the manual's and online video instructions: the antenna outside the car away from the windows/glass as much as possible, cable connected to the booster unit found underneath the driver (or front passenger) seat, then hooked up to the inside antenna that is mounted at least 8" away from any human being. In my case, that interior antenna was tested at both the front dashboard and on the ceiling at the center of the car.All claim to work with T-Mobile/Spring, Verizon, AT&T, and other carriers, and that the major 4 already pre-approve these cell boosters for use within their networks. Approval is required per FCC regulation. Mind you, the antenna included is an omni-directional one: meaning, it'll boost signal from any direction but won't be as strong as the types that must be pointed towards the cell tower.1. SUPERBARS[UPDATE 7/12/2021: Superbars reached out to me, sent a replacement, and had a technical support rep get in touch with me to go over the setup and usage. I was actually quite impressed by that service. Turns out, Superbars is indeed a rebadge of HiBoost. The results of the replacement Superbars were identical to that of the HiBoost -- no surprise since both products are practically the same.]First, I tried a SUPERBARS one. Turns out, it's a rebadge of the HiBoost. Both look virtually identical, down to the manual. It was a disaster. The Supercell did not increase any speed. The app was clunky to use. I had no idea how to use it to determine where to point the antenna to for the best signal. All it showed was a bunch of radio frequencies and how good their signals were. I could not figure out how much of a boost I was receiving. I returned it.2. HIBOOSTSecond, I tried the HIBOOST. I knew that it would likely perform as poorly as the SUPERBARS one since both products looked identical. To my surprise, the HiBoost actually WORKED. This leads me to believe that either the Superbars one was a bad copy of the HiBoost, or it was a defective unit I had received. [UPDATE 7/12/2021: Indeed, the Superbars was defective. The replacement worked very identical to the HiBoost.] There were 3 tests performed with and without the booster on. Both times, I'd set the phone into Airplane mode and turn back on so it would grab the closest signal "tower" (or booster antenna).Without booster, I received about 7.15 Mbps down and 0.62 Mbps up on average. The first test had 0 up. This was done in an area near my home where cell phone coverage was spotty despite showing 2 bars on my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S21+ phone.With booster, LTE tests averaged 17.17 Mbps down, 1.18 Mbps up. That nearly doubled both directions. Nice!The app was the same as the one used by Superbars, and frankly, I do not understand how to use it. It does not give me information in a friendly way to help figure out where the signal is strongest (to point the antenna towards) and how much of a boost the product was providing. Thankfully, I found another app that was a bit more useful than Superbars'/HiBoost's. That program was what WeBoost recommended. [UPDATE 7/12/2021: HiBoost/Superbars technical support acknowledged my criticism of the app and said they are working on overhauling it.]3. WEBOOST DRIVE REACHFinally, I tried the WEBOOST to see how it would perform when compared to the HiBoost. I found both products often compared to one another and that there generally is not much of a difference. Some say that the WeBoost amplified the upload speed more, whereas the HiBoost provided a bigger increase for downloads. Depending on what you need your cell phone signal to be, I generally prefer a boost in downloads.Turns out, at the same place as when the HiBoost was tested, the WeBoost gave identical results: a decidedly great increase in downloads and uploads with and without the booster on. I did observe that the WeBoost gave a slight edge in uploads over the HiBoost, but could not increase the downloads as well as the HiBoost.WeBoost recommends downloading the OpenSignal app that is available for both iOS and Android. It draws from a crowdsourced database and can help identify where the nearest cell tower is, how signals have been in specific areas for each of the carriers, and more. Using OpenSignal with the HiBoost/Superbars app gave me a bit more insight into where the boosters might work.CONCLUSIONWith the tests done, I have found that I'd rather recommend the HiBoost over the WeBoost because I would like to have better download speeds for streaming videos and surfing the Internet faster. Speaking of which, you should be aware that the Internet uses a different frequency as Voice/Text. Just because you have 4 or 5 bars on your phone does not mean you actually have excellent coverage for Internet or Voice/Text. The only, accurate way to verify is to check the phone itself, but that is something you will have to look up yourself on the internet for your particular smartphone (search with "check signal strength"). Apps can help too. Even though HiBoost/Superbars' app was too technical and clunky to use, it does provide dB signal-to-noise ratios for the various frequencies, but how accurate they were, I am unsure.There is a word of caution: even though both the HiBoost and WeBoost worked for the area near my home, neither also worked for many other places -- even where my AT&T/T-Mobile cell phones reported as many as 4-5 bars and 4G or 5G coverage. I could not figure out why. In other words, sometimes the boosters worked, and sometimes they seemed NOT to work. Perhaps signals were very poor to begin with, but for whatever reason, both phones reported excellent strength despite having extremely spotty internet access. Maybe the bars represented the Voice/Text network.Should you get a booster? Are they worth the $400+? Depends on your needs. Well, I'd rather have one in case of emergency than not. Speaking of emergencies, I never leave home without the Garmin inReach Explorer+. Search the internet for "yuenx garmin inreach explorer review" for an in-depth look at how one could save your life and keep your loved ones informed of your whereabouts.
Reviewer: Max
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Estuve pensando por mucho tiempo en adquirir este producto, si bien es cierto que hay buenas calificaciones y comentarios, solo son de usuarios en US y Canadá, dicho lo anterior, tenÃa un viaje por carretera México-Guadalajara, ruta que conozco perfectamente de hace 5 años y en más de la mitad de la ruta la señal es muy débil o inexistente, por lo que decidà realizar la compra y probarlo. Una vez instalado debidamente, salà a carretera con una alta expectativa, inicié un playlist en streaming para validar funcionamiento; el primer tramo con señal débil, superado! Mitad del camino, nuevamente baja señal, realice un par de llamadas y sin problema, comunicación estable, finalmente uno de los últimos tramos con prácticamente nada de señal y el celular (Telcel) mostraba señal poca pero suficiente para mantener activo el playlist. En conclusión, trayecto MEXICO- GUADALAJARA, check! Todo el camino con señal y la música en streaming siempre activa. Totalmente recomendable!
Customers say
Customers like the ease of installation of the wireless signal repeater. They mention the instructions are top-notch and it makes it much easier to use their work apps. However, some customers feel the value for money is not worth the cost. They also dislike the antenna cable length and boosting ability. Opinions are mixed on functionality, signal strength, build quality, and data speed.
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