Starting point is to figure out which carrier covers your house the best, then try to find the cheapest option/prepaid reseller to get that carrier (if you aren't using much). My area for coverage in most areas, Verizon is best, US Cellular I'd call second just guessing but probably close, regional GSM provider third, none of the other carriers provide service in most of the state. Tracfone does use different carriers. Your phone may have a sticker on it, possibly under the battery, if it has the model name of your phone (if you didn't already mention it, I didn't read everything), or possibly says “cdma” somewhere, a person could figure that out. “Easy” option would be to have a cell phone with an antenna port, but those are getting rare. Also, some phones get MUCH better reception than others. The LG flips on Tracfone/Verizon were not good in my area at all. I switched to a Motorola Barrage on PagePlus (Verizon, also Tracfone company, service as cheap as $30 per YEAR), much better reception than LG. You can bring in your own phones with a lot of theses carriers, my Barrage was ~$25 a few years ago. The actual Tracfone cell service is every bit as reliable, on the same towers, as whatever company you are activated on (Verizon, AT&T, they used to use US Cellular). I got an additional Tracfone smartphone for town use, handy to look stuff up, etc.
I have a Wilson DT4G booster for the house, as service is very poor. Wilson is now called WeBoost since they bought another company. I use cellular for home Internet, dropped the landline and use a cell home unit for that. The Wilson boosts anything within a certain number of feet of the unit (stronger signal outside, further range inside), and it works well enough, works with most carriers, and will “boost” several phones at the same time. You mount an antenna on the roof, run a cable to the unit in the house, then to an inside antenna. They make similar units for rvs. But, for good ones, you will spend $$$$$. Also, if the signal outside is too poor, they can't always help.
I had a Wilson Sleek when I first switched to cellular Internet from satellite Internet. It is designed for cars/portable. Small magnet mount antenna, small cradle, plugs into outlet/cigarette lighter/power port. But, phone needs to sit in the cradle, direct contact with the unit, so you'd need to use the speakerphone, or have one of those bluetooth headsets or a wired one. They were around $100 area, haven't looked them up lately. But, it worked very well for one device. My guess is this would be one of the more practical portable options available. But, how well they work, as I said, depends on your area. At the time I got mine, they only worked with one carrier each unit. If you had Verizon, you needed the Verizon version of the booster. They didn't work with multiple carriers. Haven't looked lately.
There isn't something that's “tiny” to attach just to the phone so it's easy to carry around that I know of.
If you are on dialup I know you probably don't like to research stuff much online. Weboost has friendly support, I've emailed a couple questions, might have a phone number. Also, a few well known companies that sell antennas/boosters, etc. would probably have suggestions. The suggestion to Google cell phone booster will get results for most of these.
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