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Re:A World Without Wi-Fi Looks Possible as Unlimited Plans Rise by arethuza on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:08AM (#13837978)
We recently purchased a house 9km from Edinburgh with no mobile signal - fortunately the Vodafone signal booster device we got (which relies on broadband) appears to work really well.

What we hadn't noticed is that you get a decent signal in the garden but not in the house. Probably as we are right next to a small hill of solid volcanic rock that is between our house and the nearest mast.

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Re:A World Without Wi-Fi Looks Possible as Unlimited Plans Rise by the-dude on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:18AM (#13838019)
> signal booster

I think the correct term is femtocell

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Re:A World Without Wi-Fi Looks Possible as Unlimited Plans Rise by arethuza on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:31AM (#13838082)
One of these things:

https://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/accessories/sure-signal/

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Re:A World Without Wi-Fi Looks Possible as Unlimited Plans Rise by the-dude on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:52AM (#13838197)
One of these things : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell

Not a signal booster.

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Re:A World Without Wi-Fi Looks Possible as Unlimited Plans Rise by arethuza on Friday March 10, 2017 @08:57AM (#13838575)
Yes, I know how it works and that its not literally boosting the existing signal but that's what the chap in the Vodafone shop called it and it does rather make things easier to explain to people who aren't bothered by technical trivia.
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Re:A World Without Wi-Fi Looks Possible as Unlimited Plans Rise by the-dude on Friday March 10, 2017 @08:59AM (#13838581)
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