Posted by The Famous Grouse on April 12, 2018 at 08:18:53 from (71.34.19.238):
In Reply to: Cell repeater posted by JimS on April 12, 2018 at 07:30:01:
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This is actually fairly difficult and expensive to accomplish.
The cheapest solution: Extended range Wi-Fi routers.
What I suspect your previous ranch had is a Wi-Fi range extending router. This extends a broadband wireless internet connection so that it can be used farther from the router.
Most newer cell phones can place phone calls over a WI-FI network OR the cell phone tower network and can switch back and forth depending on which signal is stronger. So basically if you extend the range of your internet connection, you extend the "phone call coverage" as well.
Now for the bad news. This is still a fairly short range solution. Even if you placed the router way up on a tower, it's still line of sight reception (for the most part) and it's limited in overall range even if you can see the tower.
Now if you have locations around the ranch that have electricity, you could string multiple Wi-Fi extenders together to form your own mini "Wi Fi" network. In theory, you could cover a lot of ground, but you need sites that have electricity and you'd have to get the routers up high to maximize range. Each site has to be close enough to the previous site to link, so to form a good size network to cover say a few square miles, you'd need multiple sites. Each one with a tower and electric connection.
Some cell providers offer "range extender" boxes, but these have a lot of conditions that have to be met for them to work well. Namely, all users have to be on the same cell provider.
I've heard of other commercial solutions, but these are very expensive and in general, only make sense for situations where internet is critical and there are lots of users.
those are the only solutions I know of that make sense within what I think would be a reasonable budget. There may, of course, be others, just what I've heard of and used.
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