Helpful trick using cell phone

[Eagleview]

Not bad , i'll pay that .

 

[srjones]

A bit of a lull in the conversation . Everyone knows i was joking #34 , right ?

No, I think the only posters who were going to say something had a first name of Billy, Randy, Roger, Sheila or Wally and they all decided against writing anything.

But then there was Bruce... Oh never mind.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

A friend of mine unlocked her car with a cell phone once . She called road assist and they opened it up with a pair of Slim Jims .

Also works by calling ONSTAR

 

[froggy]

Yep, nothing like urban myths!

 

[DougM]

Now for some thing that realy works.........
I have been having problms with vrz poor signal dropped calls
Well they have now come out with a network extender...
The Cost was or is $ 250 and u have to plug it into ur broadband computer modem
and for me ====THE DARN THING WRKS======

 

[jdbower]

DougM, that would be a femtocell, glad to see VZW is deploying them now. They're fairly new on the market and likely work much better than the wireless amplifier I have which simply boosts the signal to/from the cell tower that's still too far away.

 

[JB4310]

Now for some thing that realy works.........
I have been having problms with vrz poor signal dropped calls
Well they have now come out with a network extender...
The Cost was or is $ 250 and u have to plug it into ur broadband computer modem
and for me ====THE DARN THING WRKS======

I didn't read the whole description but isn't that just a land line phone basically?

JB.

 

[DougM]

I do not think it is a land line at all as it is connedted to the router but does not seem to need the internet. and once agn going from a cell phone that was of little use to one now that works great.. I like it

 

[jdbower]

It depends on what you mean by "landline". A traditional mobile phone talks to a base station, usually a few miles away. From there it communicates to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) just like a normal phone does. Sometimes this is a traditional connection like a T1 or ISDN BRI (most likely muxed into a SONET fiber ring), more frequently this is becoming an Ethernet connection offering Voice over IP services to the PSTN core.

With a femtocell you set up a tiny little base station right in your house. The coverage isn't that great (compared to a real base station) but it can generally cover your house a a reasonable amount of property around it. Your mobile phone talks to the base station and sets up a Voice over IP call to the wireless carrier over the Internet which then gets piped into the PSTN.

Technically you're using a physical line in your house (unless you have a wireless broadband connection) to communicate with your mobile phone, but since you can use the same phone and number wherever you are it's a pretty seamless and automatic transition from talking to the femtocell to talking to the public base station. You should be able to make a call in your kitchen and then drive to town without having it drop the call, but that depends on how cleanly they've implemented things (the CDMA technology behind Verizon and Sprint's network should handle this better than a GSM-based AT&T network).

 

[JB4310]

If it's going out of the house over a phone or cable line I would call that a land line, If it fills a gap in your communications needs in fringe areas, then that's what's important.

Seems like it would be a necessity for the growing number of people that don't have home phones and rely solely on cell phones, But still sounds like a long range cordless home phone to me.

If I'm understanding this right, probably not

JB.