External antenna for N900?
 

I have really weak 3g signal in my summer home, so external antenna would be very nice accessory.

Is their any such gadget for N900, or is it even possible to attack such when their is no special connector for that in n900?

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Haha, great patent:D

I have a huge bowl of 400 litres for heating water, must try to aim that to local antenna.

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There are some inductive antenna couplers. However. they can lose 4-8 dB, so you need an antenna with bigger (real, not advertised) gain than that, which rules out all the desk-stand omnidirectionals. So, a directional antenna, mounted on the outside of the building, carefully aligned towards the nearest celltower. As the distance between antenna and device will be great, you'll need some lowloss cable, which will be thick.

At this point you'll have a frankenstein n900 with a big coupler attached and cable that looks like somethng you've stolen from the electrical grid.

Maybe a better idea would be to get a WLAN AP that has USB ports and support for 3g dongles, and a 3g dongle with proper antenna port. This would reduce the size of the antenna needed, and you could surf the web on your n900 wirelessly over wlan.

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femtocell?

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I was assuming he wanted to boost internet connectivity, and assumed he'd still have strong signal for 2g..

femtocells require a path back to the operator/isp, typically adsl..

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In that case are there legal commercial Cellular repeaters? like this perhaps

http://www.dutchguard.com/spotwave-c...ter-p-tel.html

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Thanks for all the succestions. That Spotwave would be perfect if I'd spent more time on this location, but I guess I can life with the 2G few hours occasionally (and that looks like to be US version, it seems that Spotwave doesn't manufacture those for european frequencies).

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Sidetalkin' is passé. It's time for Woktalkin'.

http://imgur.com/grDkQ.jpg

(PS. It actually works. Kinda :p)

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:D

Apple could have used that in their "other phone manufacturers have antenna problems too" -propaganda.

"Look what Nokia users have to use to get signal!!"