Coverage with a Large Building Kit.
How much coverage will I get?
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There is not a set, fixed answer to this question. Following are some guidelines to
be used in answering this question. These guidelines are based upon an 800MHz
amplifier, 1900MHz results are a bit less.
If you have a good, solid signal outside your building, but a bad signal inside:
This usually means that building construction materials are inhibiting the
penetration of your cell signals. This can be caused by metal or concrete. Roofs
and walls built out of metal or concrete cause problems with cell signals.
This is usually the easiest problem to solve. We just need to transfer the good
signal outside into the building. Let us a use a single open room for an example.
You can expect using our Large Building Kit (60 dB amplifier) to provide excellent
signal to an area of 20,000 to 40,000+ square feet. If you have many interior
walls, elongated odd shapes, nooks and crannies, then you can expect less
coverage. Usually sheet rock and wood stud walls don't inhibit cell signals too
much. But you never know what is in the walls.
If you have a poor signal outside your building, and nothing inside:
This usually means that your building is on the edge of your coverage area or
being shadowed from the cell tower by some physical obstacle such as a hill or
building. This is a more difficult problem, but most of the time it can be solved.
The question here is: Do you have any signal at all to work with? A weak, poor
quality signal can be usually be amplified and enhanced, but we can not create a
good signal from nothing.
The Large Building Kit (60 dB amplifier) with this type of condition can usually
provide a usable signal for approximately up to 10,000 square feet. If you have
many interior walls, elongated odd shapes, nooks and crannies, then you can
expect less coverage. Usually sheet rock and wood stud walls don't inhibit cell
signals too much. But you never know what is in the walls.
Why is there such a spread in the numbers, 20,000 to 40,000?
This has everything to do with physics and waves. A very small increase in signal
can add up to a greater distance of coverage from the antenna. Inversely, if the
signal is inhibited a little by some type of object, wall, etc., the distance can
decrease greatly.
If these guidelines are too general and you need more exact numbers for your
situation, then call us and we will help you calculate your coverage area.