weBoost Drive Reach - Vehicle Cell Phone Signal Booster | 5G & 4G LTE | Magnetic Roof Antenna | Boosts All U.S. Carriers - Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile | Made in the U.S. | FCC Approved (model 470154)

Works very well. 2018 Ram 1500 Crew, put the outside antenna next to the antenna on the roof in the back by the driver side rear door. Put the inside antenna inside the dash above the driver side air vent next to the radio. With my phone on the ram mount, I get 74db. Huge improvement. Took me from 1bar 5G to 3 sometimes 4 bars. Upload and download speeds DOUBLED. Very worth it.If you decide to hardwire the power using the included power cable, it is not twin wire. It is shielded single core. Just be prepared for that. Unit is double SMA (both the interior and exterior antenna connectors are threaded)

I bought this product thinking "Well if it doesn't work, I'll send it back." and Now, you couldn't pry it out of my hands with a crowbar. I would take you down protecting this sucker.I am so tired of in-and-out cellular coverage in Vermont. When tourists flood our state, it's even worse with all the increased cell tower demands. So I installed this thing (even simpler than I expected: it took like 10 min tops) and BOOM, magic.I now have zero drop zones on the way to work. In one spot, it gets a little hairy but that phone hangs on to the connection - where before it would drop for a full minute.On my way up I-91N to visit my daughter at Dartmouth, I have previously counted 14 drops in 65 miles, as you weave in and out of the mountain interference. I only had a few and they were in spots with zero coverage, just the ghost dots and that SOS icon. So this antenna won't magically whip up a signal out of thin air, but it will give you 1-3 extra bars to get you past the annoying 1-bar drop spots. ["Bald spots," I think of them - Making this thing a high-quality toupee that actually works.]Go ahead, you won't be sorry.

First, I purchased this because the opportunity to work remote with my vehicle data/wifi package.I really tried to find information on this unit and the dependability, reliability, and quality of signal boost.Very difficult to find any real simple good accurate info and even when I called there number, weboost, they were not helpful before or after purchase. Should have "saw the writing on the booster".I didn't like the lack of information on how this unit really works. Difficult to find what really does boost.They make it sound like this will pick up any cell tower signal and boost it, it wont. It doesn't increase bandwidth, it takes a minimum 10ms ping signal strength to be able to boost, no where can you find this information.WeBoost makes it sound like hook it up plug it in start driving down the road and any signal, the strongest signal, it will pick it up and boost it, i.e. semi truck driving. Not true. You need a cell plan.I have a purchased data plan through my vehicle that sends out a Wi-Fi signal. It should boost the signal that it takes in to get a signal to boost, what they don't tell you is you have to have a cell plan to get a signal, no cell plan no signal, no boost, no good. I would not recommend this unit to anyone unless you are some kind of communications/electronics engineer that can really understand and troubleshoot fix improve this system.I think that I should have done something else to try and boost my Wi-Fi signal.Don't waste your money as they have a lot of excuses why there equipment doesn't work.If you do, buyer beware.Fully understand what you are getting into and understand the operation of this unit.I was really hoping that this unit performed and worked the way all of the reviews said it was going to.I am very disappointed it didn't. And then extremely disappointed in the lack of technical support afterward. In my opinion.

I go camping and hiking a lot where cell phone signal usually is very spotty, and I also live in an area that practically is dead for AT&T and T-Mobile and barely registers a bar for Verizon. A cell phone booster was provided by T-Mobile for home use and though the receiver shows 1-2 bars, we still only get spotty coverage inside the home.There is something VERY important to keep in mind about signal boosters: they are exactly that... BOOSTERS. They can only BOOST wherever some signal exists. If there is NO signal, then there is nothing to boost. Stronger signals get a stronger boost. With all that in mind, let's go over my quest to find a cell booster that would work for me.For the Superbars, HiBoost, and WeBoost, I installed them according to the manual's and online video instructions: the antenna outside the car away from the windows/glass as much as possible, cable connected to the booster unit found underneath the driver (or front passenger) seat, then hooked up to the inside antenna that is mounted at least 8" away from any human being. In my case, that interior antenna was tested at both the front dashboard and on the ceiling at the center of the car.All claim to work with T-Mobile/Spring, Verizon, AT&T, and other carriers, and that the major 4 already pre-approve these cell boosters for use within their networks. Approval is required per FCC regulation. Mind you, the antenna included is an omni-directional one: meaning, it'll boost signal from any direction but won't be as strong as the types that must be pointed towards the cell tower.1. SUPERBARS[UPDATE 7/12/2021: Superbars reached out to me, sent a replacement, and had a technical support rep get in touch with me to go over the setup and usage. I was actually quite impressed by that service. Turns out, Superbars is indeed a rebadge of HiBoost. The results of the replacement Superbars were identical to that of the HiBoost -- no surprise since both products are practically the same.]First, I tried a SUPERBARS one. Turns out, it's a rebadge of the HiBoost. Both look virtually identical, down to the manual. It was a disaster. The Supercell did not increase any speed. The app was clunky to use. I had no idea how to use it to determine where to point the antenna to for the best signal. All it showed was a bunch of radio frequencies and how good their signals were. I could not figure out how much of a boost I was receiving. I returned it.2. HIBOOSTSecond, I tried the HIBOOST. I knew that it would likely perform as poorly as the SUPERBARS one since both products looked identical. To my surprise, the HiBoost actually WORKED. This leads me to believe that either the Superbars one was a bad copy of the HiBoost, or it was a defective unit I had received. [UPDATE 7/12/2021: Indeed, the Superbars was defective. The replacement worked very identical to the HiBoost.] There were 3 tests performed with and without the booster on. Both times, I'd set the phone into Airplane mode and turn back on so it would grab the closest signal "tower" (or booster antenna).Without booster, I received about 7.15 Mbps down and 0.62 Mbps up on average. The first test had 0 up. This was done in an area near my home where cell phone coverage was spotty despite showing 2 bars on my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S21+ phone.With booster, LTE tests averaged 17.17 Mbps down, 1.18 Mbps up. That nearly doubled both directions. Nice!The app was the same as the one used by Superbars, and frankly, I do not understand how to use it. It does not give me information in a friendly way to help figure out where the signal is strongest (to point the antenna towards) and how much of a boost the product was providing. Thankfully, I found another app that was a bit more useful than Superbars'/HiBoost's. That program was what WeBoost recommended. [UPDATE 7/12/2021: HiBoost/Superbars technical support acknowledged my criticism of the app and said they are working on overhauling it.]3. WEBOOST DRIVE REACHFinally, I tried the WEBOOST to see how it would perform when compared to the HiBoost. I found both products often compared to one another and that there generally is not much of a difference. Some say that the WeBoost amplified the upload speed more, whereas the HiBoost provided a bigger increase for downloads. Depending on what you need your cell phone signal to be, I generally prefer a boost in downloads.Turns out, at the same place as when the HiBoost was tested, the WeBoost gave identical results: a decidedly great increase in downloads and uploads with and without the booster on. I did observe that the WeBoost gave a slight edge in uploads over the HiBoost, but could not increase the downloads as well as the HiBoost.WeBoost recommends downloading the OpenSignal app that is available for both iOS and Android. It draws from a crowdsourced database and can help identify where the nearest cell tower is, how signals have been in specific areas for each of the carriers, and more. Using OpenSignal with the HiBoost/Superbars app gave me a bit more insight into where the boosters might work.CONCLUSIONWith the tests done, I have found that I'd rather recommend the HiBoost over the WeBoost because I would like to have better download speeds for streaming videos and surfing the Internet faster. Speaking of which, you should be aware that the Internet uses a different frequency as Voice/Text. Just because you have 4 or 5 bars on your phone does not mean you actually have excellent coverage for Internet or Voice/Text. The only, accurate way to verify is to check the phone itself, but that is something you will have to look up yourself on the internet for your particular smartphone (search with "check signal strength"). Apps can help too. Even though HiBoost/Superbars' app was too technical and clunky to use, it does provide dB signal-to-noise ratios for the various frequencies, but how accurate they were, I am unsure.There is a word of caution: even though both the HiBoost and WeBoost worked for the area near my home, neither also worked for many other places -- even where my AT&T/T-Mobile cell phones reported as many as 4-5 bars and 4G or 5G coverage. I could not figure out why. In other words, sometimes the boosters worked, and sometimes they seemed NOT to work. Perhaps signals were very poor to begin with, but for whatever reason, both phones reported excellent strength despite having extremely spotty internet access. Maybe the bars represented the Voice/Text network.Should you get a booster? Are they worth the $400+? Depends on your needs. Well, I'd rather have one in case of emergency than not. Speaking of emergencies, I never leave home without the Garmin inReach Explorer+. Search the internet for "yuenx garmin inreach explorer review" for an in-depth look at how one could save your life and keep your loved ones informed of your whereabouts.