Wireless Extenders Yx 500-Pcs Cellular Phone Signal Booster | 
 enlarge | Brand: Wireless Extenders
Category: Wireless
List Price: $299.00
Buy New: $205.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 3411
Color: white
Media: Wireless Phone Accessory
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 2 x 7
nv:Communications Type: Signal Booster
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: YX500-PCS
Model: YX500-PCS
UPC: 186639000502
EAN: 0186639000502
ASIN: B000A3OLZC
Release Date: April 22, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Extends cellular coverage for single or multiple users in homes or offices--provides up to 2500 square feet of coverage | | • | Works with T-Mobile, Metro PCS, Cricket, Suncom, and Sprint (not Nextel) PCS wireless phones in frequency range of 1850-1990 MHz | | • | Omni-directional signal antenna receives signals from multiple cell towers | | • | Antenna can be installed outdoors above the roofline or indoors in the attic or near a window | | • | Extends phone battery life--uses less power when signal is stronger |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Designed as a whole-house/office solution for improving your cellular phone signal, the Wireless Extenders YX500/PCS zBoost zP Wireless Booster can extend cellular coverage up to 2500 square feet. This YX500/PCS model works with all phones on the 1900 MHz frequency, including compatibility with Sprint (not Nextel) and T-Mobile. The package includes everything you need: amplifier base unit, power supply, base unit antenna, low-loss SATV coaxial cable (RG6), signal antenna and mounting hardware. The omni-directional signal antenna receives signals from multiple cell towers. 
Improve your cell signal with the YX500/PCS--perfect for boosting the signal of Sprint and T-Mobile frequencies up to 2500 square feet. |  | Using a revolutionary, patent pending technology that protects the carrier network, the YX500/PCS improves indoor cell phone coverage by capturing and repeating the outside signal, bringing it into the building and enhancing it. This process creates a "Cell Zone" in your home or office. The Wireless Extenders zBoost system includes: - Outdoor antenna (repeats the signal) can be installed outdoors above the roofline or indoors in the attic or near a window
- Coax cable (RG6- ultra low-loss, DBS satellite) connects from the outdoor antenna to the base unit
- Base unit: Sleekly designed, it amplifies the signal and provides oscillation detection/correction which protects the carrier network using patent-pending technology.
- Indoor antenna connects to the base unit to repeat the signal and create "Cell Zone"--no physical connection to the phone is needed.
Installation
Choosing the best location for installation of the Signal Antenna provides the best performance and the largest area of improved signal. Determine the location that provides the strongest signal using the signal strength indicator on your cell phone. For the best reception, find the location that provides the most bars of signal strength and locate the Signal Antenna at that location. Specifications
- US PCS 1900 MHz band
- Uplink: 1850 - 1910 MHz
- Downlink: 1930 - 1990 MHz
- Network formats: CDMA, GSM, TDMA, GPRS, EDGE, 1xRTT, EVDO, HSDPA
- Total Signal Gain: 60dB (adaptive)
- Output Power: less than 0.5 Watt EiRP (w/ included antenna)
- Unit weight: 1 pound
- Unit size: 5 x 7 x 2 inches
- Power input: 100-120 VAC 60 Hz
- Power output: 5VDC, 1.5A
- Signal antenna cable: Outdoor rated 75 ohm DBS satellite coaxial cable, Type-F male
- Base unit antenna: 50 ohm, TNC male
Note: If you need coverage for an AT&T or Verizon phone (800 MHz spectrum), check out the YX500/CEL or the dual-band YX510--which covers both the 800 MHz and 1900 MHz spectrums. Will the Wi-Ex YX500-PCS or the YX500-CEL unit work with any wireless service?
The Wi-Ex YX500-PCS unit will work only in the PCS frequency range (1850 a€" 1990 MHz), and the Wi-Ex YX500-CEL will only work in the Cellular frequency range (824 a€" 896 MHz). Cell phones from providers like Cricket, Metro PCS, Suncom, T-Mobile, and Sprint (excludes Nextel) normally work with our YX500-PCS model, and cell phones from providers like AT&T and Verizon will normally work with the YX500-CEL model. Most of the wireless phones in use today are in the PCS or the Cellular frequencies. Some wireless service providers are PCS only while others will operate in the Cellular and PCS frequencies. This varies from city to city. If your service provider shows both 800 and 1900 MHz the YX500-CEL will probably work. If your service provider shows only the 1900MHz, the YX500-PCS booster will work.
Product Description
The Wi-Ex zBoost cell zone signal booster is a revolutionary, patent-pending new product that improves indoor cell phone coverage. zBoost captures the wireless signal outside, brings it inside and enhances, or boosts it - extending a Cell Zone in your home or office or your car.The zBoost YX500-PCS works with all phones on the 1900MHz frequency. Includes Sprint, T-Mobile and others.
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 Product does what it says it does November 4, 2008
This product does what it is advertised to do. It will take an acceptable outside signal and bring it inside. It does not create or boost the outside signal and the range inside might be less than you hoped. Works great for a single office but I doubt you'll be satisified for an 1800+ sq ft home.
I used it to get good signal into my basement home office and it works great for that. Before I couldn't hold a call for more than a minute without dropping and now I can hold a 2 hour phone call with only minor signal issues. Used to have 0-1 bars and now have 2-4 bars.
Also be aware that the outside antenna must be 12 or more feet higher than the inside transmission unit or they will interfere with each other.
If you take these caveats in mind and it still meets your needs you will be satisfied.
Works November 3, 2008
I used to have to stick my head up to the window in my office to talk on my cell phone...now I can just sit in my chair...much better believe me! Boosted my signal 2-3 bars...more important, my iphone now works fine where before it would barely stay connected on a call.
 It works...kind of. October 6, 2008
I bought this item for my new apartment because the signal here is weak. I loose a lot of calls but there is good signal next to the window. I set the box up, but the instructions say it needs 15 feet of VERTICAL clearance between the base unit and the antenna. I separated them as much as I could; however, it would only work while I was standing right next to the base unit. maybe a 3' to 4' radius. If you can set the antenna on the roof, 15 or more feet above the base unit it might work. I sent the item back, and Amazon gave me a full refund.
Carefully assess your living situation September 8, 2008
I live in a bottom-floor apartment surrounded by many trees and in a fairly dead zone for my Sprint PCS 1900 MHz service. I have tried many antenna and base combinations, including mounting the antenna outside of my building, and can not see much difference in the performance of my phone. It seems (but I may be wrong about this) that the booster only boosts the *incoming* signal from the cell phone tower, but does not boost the *outgoing* signal from your phone. A such, I am able to hear my caller clearly, but they can not hear me clearly, and my calls still frequently drop when my phone and the tower lose communication. I believe that this product would work in a place where you have open air for the signal transmitted by your phone to be properly received by the tower. The tower is much more sensitive than your phone. For places that are heavily obstructed by trees, buildings, walls, etc., I would not recommend this product.
 Works great for me. August 8, 2008
I have been fighting poor signal strength for a couple of years now for my business. It got worse when I moved into a metal siding and roof building for my office. The only way to get the phone to work was to hang it in the window or outside and use bluetooth to receive calls with my headset. In my business a call could be several thousand dollars in business and missed calls may mean opportunity for my competition. This was a small investment comparitavely. Even better than advertising. I now get 4 bars sitting at my desk where before I had zero. I plan to mount the antenna to a piece of pipe to get it even higher but it works very well as is with the antenna mounted on the highest point on the side of the building. I highly recommend this product. It works especially well for me since I don't need reception to extend very far from the base unit.
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