![]() I had a friend give me another old dish that I used for wi-fi. It was also a great way to recycle that old satellite antenna that would have ended up in the trash otherwise. It isn't an ideal setup but it worked and it didn't cost me anything. Using a blue tooth headset really worked well. I no longer missed calls and I didn't have to leave home to talk on my cell phone. To my surprise, I got two to three bars inside so long as I pointed the dish at a double window in my living room. With aluminum siding on the house I have problems even getting a television signal using a rabbit ear antenna. The next test came when I took the assembly inside the house to try it. Just to make sure I made a call using speaker phone and found that this thing truly did work. I went from no signal to full signal and had not spent a dime or changed anything on my cell phone. I was amazed to find that I got full signal in one direction. I grabbed some wrenches, took down the dish and held my cell phone next to the antenna's horn and pointed the dish in various directions. It had been left there by the previous residents. ![]() While working in my yard one afternoon I noticed an old satellite TV dish on top of a pole in my backyard. I checked into an external antenna for my cell phone but found they cost nearly $50.00 and there was some question about whether they actually work. ![]() It was uphill in nearly any direction from there. It was apparent that my problem was my location. Of the three other major carriers we checked, not one could get a signal at my house. I decided to change carriers so I had several friends check out their signal strength while they were visiting me so I could better decide which carrier to go with. I first thought my problem was my cell carrier. The only way for me to get a cell signal at all was to drive over a mile in either direction from where I liveed. When I moved from San Antonio back to rural North Carolina, I found myself completely unable to get a wi-fi or cell phone signal where I lived. ![]()
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