weBoost Home MultiRoom - Cell Phone Signal Booster | Boosts 4G LTE & 5G up to 5,000 sq ft for all U.S. Carriers - Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile & more | Made in the U.S. | FCC Approved (model 470144)

I’ll start by saying that 5 or 6 years ago I bought the prior version of this WeBoost MultiRoom. I installed it at my house, where I had very bad cell reception inside, but outside or at an upstairs window I got OK reception. I bought this version for the similar directional antenna, better gain, and the larger coverage area for inside my new home. Last year I moved, and the old WeBoost stayed at the old house. For the last 13 months I have struggled with dropped calls, poor data rates, loss of data connectivity. I needed to solve the same problems I had before, so I went with a brand that lasted me 4 years or more and did a wonderful job the whole time.First, I did a dry run or ‘soft test’ by placing the antenna on the upstairs deck rail and running the cable through a doorway. Worked pretty well, in my kitchen I went from one bar 3G 1MBPS download to 2 bars 4G/LTE and 10MBPS download, which was as good or better than I expected. I installed the directional antenna outside under the eaves of my house, and used OpenSignal app to get a rough idea of which direction to point the antenna, routed the ouside cable under the eaves and used the included flat connector to come through a slider window. WORKED GREAT. Once inside I mounted the interior antenna on the slope of my interior roof, pointing down at about 45 degrees across the kitchen and living room.Signal test after final placement was 16.2MBPS and phone shows 3 to 4 bars of LTE. Perfect - as good as I get in town on a good day.Note: My install is NOT perfectly in line with the instruction book. The two antennas are at the same height, and I only have 20 feet between the outside antenna and the inside antenna, but they do face away from each other. The book calls for as much as 50’ separation, and encourages 20’ of vertical separation, but as far as I can tell I have no significant interference and the speed increase was 10X to 15X improvement. I even have LTE at the other end of the house, and 3 to 4 bars of 3G in the basement where I was lucky to show any connection at all before.The multi-room unit with directional antenna was priced higher than I liked, and I will be watching it pretty closely for the next few weeks to make sure performance holds, but if it does as well as my last one... I will count it a success and well worth the extra money. I do not have a 5G signal in my area, and have an older IPhone 6S, so it may be a year or three before I use that feature, but its nice to know the new units will also work for 5G when it comes my way.

This thing works GREAT!!!! I went from 0 service to 4 out of 5 bars of service with this thing. However, there are two things you need to know to get that kind of performance, so I will tell you those two things, and then post a how-to for how I set mine up.1) You have to research which bands the booster will boost and compare them to which bands your cell phone provider (and your specific cell phone) uses. WeBoost (and others) sell different boosters for different bands and carriers. It would seem obvious - but if this booster does not boost the band(s) you need, then you will get no boost (which is the main complaint the negative reviewers post).2) The antenna is DIRECTIONAL, which means you need to point it in the direction of the tower(s) you are going to be using. If you don't, it can drastically affect how well it works (or doesn't).How-To (or How-I-Did):Before I ordered: I used a free phone app for Android called "Network Cell Info Lite" (there are others that do the same thing), which would tell me 1) what bands my phone was using, and 2) what direction the towers were from my current location. With the app installed on my phone, I climbed up on a ladder until I finally got a signal (I got 0 signal on the ground, so climbing the ladder was a necessity). About 15 feet off the ground, I got about -110dbm of signal, and found that the phone would alternate between band 5 and band 13. I checked, and this booster does both of them, so I ordered it. I also checked, and it showed me the location of the towers, both of which were in the same direction, north and east of my location.When the WeBoost arrived (along with a $18 Wilson mast I bought to mount it to the side of my barn), I unpacked the unit and read the directions. I mounted the antenna on the side of the barn about 18 feet off the ground, and pointed the antenna roughly in the direction of where I knew the towers were from my pre-order checklist. Then I ran the cables, and setup the booster and the inside antenna as explained in the directions.I turned everything on, and was disappointed to find I got 0 signal boost. I pulled out the app again, and checked the location of the towers, and realized I had the antenna pointed about 20 degrees the wrong way.When I looked close, I also saw I had it probably 15 degrees out of line on the horizontal axis as well. That's what I get for 'eyeballing it'. Back up the ladder with the phone in hand, and this time I got it lined up within about 1-2 degrees of 'perfect' (at least according to where the phone said the towers are).OH SNAP, THAT WORKED!!!! The light on the booster unit went from red to green, and I found I suddenly had 4 out of 5 bars of 4G signal when standing in the exact same spot(s) where I previously had 0 signal at all (no 3g, no 4g, not even 1x). Phone worked fantastic, download speeds were great, etc.This specific unit has a higher level of boost (covers more area) than most, and I find that my phone works anywhere within about 100 feet of the inside antenna that re-transmits the boosted signal.So in summary - the antenna is pretty directional, so you need to get it lined up on the tower you want it to boost from pretty well, and you need to have a unit that boosts the band(s) your phone/provider uses. If you can do those two things, this thing works GREAT. If you can't do those two things, you may have a less than happy experience with this thing (and probably any booster, as they all work on the same principles).Hope this helps.