Weboost Drive Reach - Vehicle Cell Phone Signal Booster | 5g & 4g Lte | Magnetic Roof Antenna | Boos
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)
- Reaches the farthest cell towers and boosts signal for multiple devices
- Compatible with all U.S. carriers, including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and US Cellular
- Supports the latest in 5G technology, providing the best speed and service possible on any smartphone
- FCC approved with 50 dB max gain
- weBoost provides expert U.S.-based customer support through our app, chat, phone, or email, and we guarantee our products with a two-year warranty.
The Drive Reach is weBoost’s most powerful in-vehicle cell phone signal booster. It gives you the freedom to stay connected with the strongest cell coverage imaginable — wherever the road takes you. With 29.5 dBm uplink power, to 5 dBm downlink power, and up to 50 dB max gain, your car, truck, or van gets up to 74% farther range on the road than the weBoost Drive X — even in remote areas and rural towns. Installation is easy, the outside antenna mounts with a super-strong magnet or an adhesive disk for non-magnetic roofs to secure for better cell signal. Featuring a 12VDC power cord (cigarette lighter) along with a USB-A power cord for rapid USB mobile device charging for your phone or cellular device. The weBoost Drive Reach is compatible with all U.S. carriers and networks such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular. The hassle-free installation doesn’t require any tools and only takes minutes with easy-to-follow instructions. Drive with fewer dropped calls, faster mobile internet, and greater hotspot capability with the weBoost Drive Reach vehicle cell phone signal booster. Magnetic antenna for quick placement.
Brand : weBoost
Category : Cell Phones & Accessories,Accessories,Signal Boosters
Rating : 4
ListPrice : US $499.99
Price : US $499.99
Review Count : 1289
Best Sellers Rank : #15,974 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories) #14 in Cell Phone Signal Boosters
Connectivity technologies : All phones and cellular devices
Other display features : Wireless
Color : Red, Black
SalesRank : 15974
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)
- 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.
- I\'ll start with the positives. This is a great device that REALLY works well. This is the fourth Wilson Electronics booster I\'ve owned over the years and all of them have worked great. This one is no exception. If you can get the green light to turn on (indicating you do not have oscillation between the indoor and outdoor antenna and the device is functioning nominally), you will see a significant boost in cellular connectivity and performance. The design of the main booster unit is elegant and functional. It has a nice heat sink and is a size that can be easily stowed below the driver\'s seat so you can pull 12V power from the center console. Install of the interior antenna from this location is easy. However...that leads me to the frustration that caused me to return this unit to Wilson Electronics for a refund.The main issue is that Wilson Electronics tried to save a few dollars by going with an inferior quality cable to the exterior antenna. The low quality (I\'ll say CHEAP) cable is only 8\' long. That\'s a big problem for anyone trying to install this in a van or SUV. If you locate the head unit under the driver\'s seat and run the wire for the roof antenna up the B pillar behind the driver\'s seat...then up onto the roof, you are about out of cable when you reach the roof. It\'s almost impossible to get the antenna far enough back to get away from the interior antenna to avoid oscillation. At best, you\'ll get a green light and still have sub-par performance from the unit.I\'d recommend this unit all day long for a sedan...because the cable for the roof-top antenna is probably long enough to make it work. In this case, you\'d want to mount the interior cable on the center console near the factory radio area, etc. If you have a larger SUV, van, RV, etc....don\'t get this model. (Or plan to buy a different roof-top exterior antenna that has a longer cable. I have a Lexus GX 460 with an overland build. That means I have a big roof-rack system...so I purchased the Wilson Reach OTR which is designed for over the road truckers. (Big rigs). The antenna is pretty large on the OTR model, but the performance is outstanding...and the cable for the roof-top exterior antenna is 12\' instead of 8\'. That allowed me to mount the omni antenna at the rear of my roof rack (they provide awesome mounting hardware that even allow you to add up to a 24\" mast if you want to go nuts on performance). The 12\' of cable was perfect to bring the cable in through the rear tailgate area and run along the bottom of the plastic interior trim (along the carpet and then the passenger door sill) to reach under the driver\'s seat to the head unit.I tested results with two iPhones. (iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone XR) Both phones had similar performance gains with the booster enabled. I had 1 bar of service at my rural home for both phones. (-111db for you nerds). When I turned on the booster, my signal went to two bars (-90db). I did a Google Speed Test with and without the booster. Without the booster, my download was 9.8Mbps and my upload was a lousy 0.42Mbps. When I turned the booster on, my download jumped to 45Mbps and my upload increased to 12Mbps. This is a stunning result...which we repeated over and over again with subsequent tests. I was connected to an ATT tower on LTE bandwidth (ATT\'s stupid \"5Ge\" service). I\'m hopeful that this always-on booster will significantly improve my cellular service in town and when I\'m up on the mountain highways that I frequent here in Colorado. Hope this review helps!
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