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)

100% Works but not a cure-all
I was tentative to buy this product but wanted to give it a shot and my friend recommended it. I also upgraded this with the “Wilson Electronics 19-inch 4G Truck and RV Spring-Mount Antenna”, you’ll need an “SMA Male to SMB Female” connector to make it work.Limitations:- I don’t use this in a moving vehicle.- If you have no reception (no bars), this won’t help you. Cell reception is predominately line of site which is why cell towers are on mountain tops.- The little antenna this comes with is ok and provides a bit of a boost. The upgraded antenna made a huge difference!- I’m tethering a laptop to my phone most often rather than using my phone. The best reception you will get from this is by taking your phone out of the case and laying right on top of the internal antenna and not moving your phone around.My setup:- I work remote out of my van and often times I have much better reception out of my van than inside. I’m often in mountainous or forested areas on the outskirts of town with 1 bar. Having a half way decent connection is the difference between me being able to do my job and not so this product is worth the expense for me.- I’ve been in areas where I show 1 bar of service but practically have no data. Turning on the booster gives me enough data to run streaming services on my phone reliably.- The biggest boost on speed tests show that I can get boosted upload speeds from 2x to 10x. I’ve seen it go from no upload speed to 2Mbps and 2Mbps to 40Mbps!! Download speeds are less affected.I use every extension on the big antenna and lay it flat on my roof rack while travelling. When stopped I drop it into one of the holes on the rack and get about a 4′ extension but it takes about 1-2 minutes to get on the roof and set it up.

WeBoost worked/didn’t work. HiBoost works as well at a lower price
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.

Estuve pensando por mucho tiempo en adquirir este producto, si bien es cierto que hay buenas calificaciones y comentarios, solo son de usuarios en US y Canadá, dicho lo anterior, tenía un viaje por carretera México-Guadalajara, ruta que conozco perfectamente de hace 5 años y en más de la mitad de la ruta la señal es muy débil o inexistente, por lo que decidí realizar la compra y probarlo. Una vez instalado debidamente, salí a carretera con una alta expectativa, inicié un playlist en streaming para validar funcionamiento; el primer tramo con señal débil, superado! Mitad del camino, nuevamente baja señal, realice un par de llamadas y sin problema, comunicación estable, finalmente uno de los últimos tramos con prácticamente nada de señal y el celular (Telcel) mostraba señal poca pero suficiente para mantener activo el playlist. En conclusión, trayecto MEXICO- GUADALAJARA, check! Todo el camino con señal y la música en streaming siempre activa. Totalmente recomendable!