Wireless Extenders zBoost YX510-PCS-CELDual Band Cell Phone Signal Booster up to 2500 Square Feet of Coverage for Home or Office (800 MHz and 1900 MHz Phones)

Product features

• Extends cellular coverage for single or multiple users in homes or offices--provides up to 2500 square feet of coverage
• Dual-band device works with 800/1900 MHz frequencies from all major carriers--AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Alltel, Cricket, and more (not compatible with Nextel)
• Omni-directional signal antenna receives signals from multiple cell towers
• Antenna can be installed outdoors above the roofline or indoors in the attic or near a window
• Extends phone battery life--uses less power when signal is stronger

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User reviews

  :(, 2009-11-19
didn't work for us... if it hadn't already been painfully installed into our home... I would have returned it for all that wasted money :(

 

  Great for the iPhone 3G, 2009-11-14
I researched wireless extenders that are compatible with the iPhone 3G. The YX510-PCS-CEL was about the only one that was reported to work with a 3G iPhone on the AT&T network. The iPhone is supposed to work on the 1900 MHz frequency but it also can utilize the 800 MHz band. In order to handle heavy usage times like rush hour, AT&T may transmit your iPhone conversation at the 800 MHz cellular band instead of the customary 1900 MHz PCS band. This may drop your signal from say, 3 bars to 1 or no bars. The result is a dropped call. Single band wireless extenders like the YX500 will do fine for many calls, but will drop others as AT&T switches frequencies. The solution is a dual band extender. My 3100 sq ft house has signal that varies from no bars to 3 bars, but outdoors on one side of the house, we have 4 or 5 bars. Dropped calls inside the house were common and created a BIG annoyance. We installed the YX510 in a couple of hours (including reading the directions). We put the outdoor antenna on a parapet about 3 feet above the flat roof and the YX510 unit with it's standard attached antenna at the other end of the house, about 4 feet from the ceiling. We were fortunate to have an old, unused coax cable running across the roof and into one of the bedrooms (had that not been there we could have taken another hour and run the included cable through the roof or down the wall). Then we hooked the YX510 up to the 10 year old cable and instantly had 3 to 5 bars, everywhere in the house. Our house is U shaped so the signal has to be able to penetrate the outside block wall that the YX510 is attached to, go across the courtyard, and then penetrate another outside block wall. Despite the obstacles the YX510 still managed to produce 3 bars in a room where previously we had no bars. The sound quality of our calls is as good as ever and we can walk and talk all around the house, without fear of dropping a call. This is an expensive piece of equipment but it's more than worth it. Now we can fully utilize the service that AT&T charges us for, so all things considered, it's a bargain.

 

  Works well for rural areas, 2009-11-13
This product really works, but it is not for the timid. Expect to experiment with positioning the external antenna and the indoor broadcast unit, and you may be rewarded with good signal in your home. It worked and worked well in my case. Make sure you can get four bars of signal outside the house, probably the roof. Mount the external antenna as high as conveniently possible at that location. Then experiment with the best location for the unit inside the house, so that you cover all the important rooms with at least two bars. As a comparison, the signal seems to fade much more than wifi for a given distance. My house is about 1200 sq feet, and I got two bars in each room, which was my goal.

 

  cell phone booster YX510-PCS-CELDual, 2009-11-13
It has helped some, but the range is very limited. Unsure how it can advertise it covers up to 2500 square feet. I don't think it is worth the price.

 

  OK, but nothing special, 2009-11-12
We bought this item about a year ago through Amazon. Having read the reviews, we installed the antenna inside the attic as high as it will go, and installed silvered insulation below it to isolate it from feedback that its own transmitter would produce. The RF cable supplied in the kit is 50 feet long, but although our house is 2 stories high there's no convenient way to run the cable to the first floor - so we couldn't locate the antenna 20 feet above the transmitter.

Our house is located in a neighborhood that's notorious for poor cell reception. This booster increased the indicated signal on our cell phones from zero-to-1 bar up to 5 bars right next to the transmitter, but our joy was short-lived when we found that the performance of our phones wasn't increased all that much - the reception still isn't as clear as it is outside our neighborhead, and we still get too many dropped calls. The signal strength drops off rapidly elsewhere in the house; on average it's about 2 bars.

We tried the e-mail tech support; the response was quick and accurate but it didn't make a silk purse of our sow's ear. They wanted a 20-foot separation between antenna and transmitter but that would require running exposed cable through a second-story room and that isn't an acceptable option for us. They also suggested using as short a cable as possible for maximum signal strength so we used a 25-foot cable but that hasn't had a noticeable effect.

So the bottom line for us is that it does increase reception from almost-nonexistent to barely-there. It works, but is not worth $190 to us.