How to get cell reception in an aluminum house

[Darth_3]

The house I just bought has aluminium siding and the GSM cell phone reception is terrible inside the house, outside the house has great reception, is there a cell phone repeater I can put in my attic (the roof isn't metal) to solve the issue?

 

[kanewolf]

You can get some repeaters that you mount an antenna outside and run a coax inside to the repeater. Your cell provided may even have a preferred repeater or micro-cell that works best with their system.

 

[Darth_3]

You can get some repeaters that you mount an antenna outside and run a coax inside to the repeater. Your cell provided may even have a preferred repeater or micro-cell that works best with their system.

Yeah, true. I need a system with an inside and outside antenna to cover about 1500 sqr feet, any suggestions?

 

[kanewolf]

They are very specific to your cell service. You need to know frequency ranges, etc... That is why I said your cellular provider may have a preferred model.

 

[Darth_3]

They are very specific to your cell service. You need to know frequency ranges, etc... That is why I said your cellular provider may have a preferred model.

I have cricket wireless, they don't have a preferred booster. How about a weboost system?

 

[kanewolf]

That might work. It looks like they have models for Cricket.

 

[Darth_3]

That might work. It looks like they have models for Cricket.

Except Cricket doesn't lease bandwidth anymore, because they were bought by AT&T a few years ago and use their network.

 

[kanewolf]

I guess it doesn't matter how Cricket gets their service. My point of the previous post was that WeBoost does have models which are supposed to support Cricket -- https://www.weboost.com/collections/cricket-cell-boosters