We have a motorhome (MH) and it is inside a MH garage at our house. In the MH we have an amplifier #803201, a 12" mag mount antenna #301103 on the MH roof, and a cell phone Cradle #301146 all from Wilson Electronics.
Today I wanted to try this set up with my new Samsung Charge phone and I was amazed. These signal strength readings are from the Charge phone itself. After the phone sat on the table for a few minutes the Signal Strength (SS) was -84 dBm an i was connected to the Verizon 4G LTE network.
The setup was using the mag mount roof antenna, connected to the amplifier, the amplifier was connected to the cradle into which I had placed the Charge phone. This will knock your socks off because I immediately got a SS of -43 dBm. Using speedtest.net I got a 122 MS ping, 12 Mb ps down, and 3 Mb ps up. WOW, what a big increase in SS from -84 to -43 dBM.
I was busy with other stuff so I did not force the phone to 3G but, from experience, I can tell you it will be just as good or better for CDMA 3G. BTW, I use this setup for our Verizon Pantech UML290 modem/Cradlepoint MBR1000 router when we are traveling in the MH.
One other comment, the cradle allows me to use any phone or modem because most of the new ones no longer have plug-in antenna ports anymore. If you want to see this type of equipment go look at the 3Gstore.com.
JerryF
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