Name: What is a femtocell? | weBoost
Uploaded: 2018-09-09T00:56:31.000Z
Duration: 4 min 26 s
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hi i'm derek with weBoost, what is a femtocell? Well this is a femtocell here there

are a couple different ones this one works with AT&T and this one works at

Verizon and then here are a few examples of a signal booster they both look

pretty similar and they both do essentially the same thing which is

provide you with cellular coverage in your home but they do it in a very different way

a signal booster works by taking the weak signal outside of your home

amplifying it and then sending a strong signal throughout your home when you

make a call it then does that same process in reverse and sends a strong

signal back to the cell tower a femtocell on the other hand works

through internet. You connect it to the internet then it will create a small

area of coverage in your home. when you make a call it converts that cellular signal

then sends it through the internet to a femto gateway which then sends it out

there you can see the basic differences between the two a signal booster uses

existing signal and boosts it, but it does require some signal to be there. It can

be the tiniest hint of a signal and it will still work but it can't create

a femtocell the other hand requires an Internet connection and it will slow

it's all about the details lets talk about coverage. A femtocell will typically

cover about a single room so if you want to cover an entire house you'll have

to set up multiple femtocells throughout, we'll get into that a little bit more

later a signal booster on the other hand will cover anything from a single

room all the way up to warehouse based on the signal booster that you choose

for example this eqo here will cover about 1,200 square feet

how about users, a femtocell will allow about 4 people to use it at the same time you

can have more people in standby mode but only four people can use it

simultaneously a signal booster doesn't have any sort of the limit so you can

have as many people using it at the same time as you'd like and it will work just fine. how about

accessibility a femtocell is carrier specific what that means is this is only

going to work for AT&T its going to use the specific frequency ranges and bands that

AT&T uses so if you had AT&T but your wife has t-mobile it's not going to work

for her she's not gonna be able to connect and still be able to make a call

a signal booster covers all frequency ranges at all bands no matter what

carrier you're on or what phone you use its going to work for you

a femtocell requires you to sync and register your phone and then login to use it so

that kinda goes back to what I was talking about earlier having multiple

units throughout your house will have to sync and login with each individual unit

handoffs can also be somewhat touchy going from cellular inside and then

handing off to the femtocell can create issues. Once you set up a signal booster

you're done it just sends signal throughout your house and that's all you need to do

what about maintenance is there any sort of upkeep on something like this a femtocell

can require a monthly fee it just depends on your carrier so check with

your carrier and see if that's something they require also because it

uses the Internet it will be eating up that data so if you're on any sort of

plan that has an allowance or a cap keep that in mind. a signal booster doesn't

have any sort of allowances or monthly fees so once you install it you're good

and all of weBoost's signal boosters are smart so that means that they're

constantly checking and updating themselves to make sure that the're running

at peak performance. a femtocell only works in your home so if you need something

while you're on the road you're out of luck while these signal boosters here

are specifically for a home weBoost makes a whole line of boosters for

vehicles whether you need it for a car, truck, RV, boat or pretty much anything

else so there's a side-by-side comparison of signal boosters and

femtocells we hope this gives you an idea of what each one is and how they each

operates and hopefully this helps you to be a little more informed if you've got any

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