Cell Phones...Better Reception?

Ok who knows something to help my Cell Phone get better reception? For example if I go through a tunnel I my lose my phone or if I am in a big building the same may happen. I saw this thing on TV that gets hooked up to your battery that is suppose to make your range a lot better. I really doubt if it works looks kind of cheezy. Any advice? ~NiceMann __________________ Quote: Originally posted by NiceMann Ok who knows something to help my Cell Phone get better reception? For example if I go through a tunnel I my lose my phone or if I am in a big building the same may happen. I saw this thing on TV that gets hooked up to your battery that is suppose to make your range a lot better. I really doubt if it works looks kind of cheezy. Any advice? ~NiceMann Tin foil. Miles, and miles, and miles of tin foil is my suggestion. Actually, I'd be interested in a fix too, but these seem to be pretty prevalent problems among the cellphone set, so I'm not holding my breath for a really good solution. Maybe coerce the providers to install relays inside buildings and tunnels? Actually, if it's a question of signal strength while driving, my father used to have a cradle in his car that would run the signal through an external antenna, while also charging it and running the audio through a speaker and mic cleverly hidden. It wasn't that expensive, and it seemed to work. They might not have them for the miniature phones out there today (I haven't seen one for my StarTac) but it seemed to work pretty good. __________________ Oops just noticed....I posted this in the wrong forum. I thought I was in off topic. Would the secret GotApex moderator please move it. ~NiceMann __________________ All i know is that of all the companies, pacbell has the crappiest reception. In fact just about all pac bell services seem to be like this, they're cheap but crappy. I dont know, you know me i just have to say something about everything, even if i dont know **** about it __________________ I have a NOKIA and I very seldom have problems, even in elevators. __________________ PacBell has the worst because they are GSM only. AT&T's network is trimode -- so it uses the best possible of GSM (1900MZ), TDMA (900MHZ), and analog frequencies where GSM is not avail, AT&T phones switch to the other frequencies, while PacBells just dont work __________________ 1900MZ sucks big time getting calls inside structures __________________ To make a correction, AT&T phones are dual band, dual mode. This means they operate on both the 800/1900Mhz frequencies, hence the dual band. The dual mode that it works on analog and TDMA. Many people just call these phones tri-band. The way it breaks down is 800Mhz analog/800Mhz TDMA/1900Mhz TDMA. Mavi forum