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Also, have fun trying to use your "high-speed"data connection in buildings with terrible reception. Disclaimer: I've worked in many of these

• arethuza 10y ago
  We recently purchased a house 9km from Edinburgh with no mobile signal - fortunately the Vodafone signal booster device we got (which relies on broadband) appears to work really well. What we hadn't noticed is that you get a decent signal in the garden but not in the house. Probably as we are right next to a small hill of solid volcanic rock that is between our house and the nearest mast.
  • the-dude 10y ago
    > signal booster I think the correct term is femtocell
    • arethuza 10y ago
      One of these things: https://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/accessories/sure-signal/ https://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/accessories/sure-signal/
      • the-dude 10y ago
        One of these things : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell Not a signal booster.
        • arethuza 10y ago
          Yes, I know how it works and that its not literally boosting the existing signal but that's what the chap in the Vodafone shop called it and it does rather make things easier to explain to people who aren't bothered by technical trivia.
          • the-dude 10y ago
            On HN