06-27-2019, 01:25 PM
I've been looking into different solutions, I replaced the factory radio in my toad with an Android radio. It has connections for AM/FM, WiFi and GPS. My stock AM/FM antenna was rather poor, so instead of installing the windshield WiFi antenna and roof top GPS antenna and living with poor AM/FM reception I bought a roof top shark fin antenna. It also has a 4G/LTE cable, I thought it would be nice to have enhanced 4G/LTE reception in the car too. I started looking into boosters for the cell signal and ended up with more questions than answers. Apparently mobile boosters are limited to a 50 dB gain that home/office boosters are not limited to. I started looking on Alibaba.com to see what was available from China seeing as that's where most electronics come from anymore. I discovered that almost all the boosters used either 5 or 12v DC. What I found was you had to specify North America in the search because there is no world wide standard.
I use Google Fi as a carrier, and it uses Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular towers and WiFi and automatically switches to the strongest signal even in the middle of your calls. So I'm searching for a 4G/LTE booster that operates on North American frequencies that isn't limited to 50 dB gain and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
If this works on my toad I will definitely incorporate the same setup in my coach.
I use Google Fi as a carrier, and it uses Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular towers and WiFi and automatically switches to the strongest signal even in the middle of your calls. So I'm searching for a 4G/LTE booster that operates on North American frequencies that isn't limited to 50 dB gain and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
If this works on my toad I will definitely incorporate the same setup in my coach.
Jon & Chris Everton
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