I Had ZERO Confidence a Cell Signal Booster Would Work - So I Bought One & Put It To The Test!

[@kenyongillespie8652]

I’ve thought about buying one but didn’t know if they really work. Thanks for the information.

[@robsteingruber9488]

I moved to rural Colorado about 18 months ago. I have a We Boost in my truck, a different model from this one. But a great investment. We also put in a home unit since the house is 8 miles to the nearest tower and we have no landline capability where we are.

[@Dave-yl2ep]

Tip: The antenna should be farther away from the radio antenna. From the Weboost FAQs: Will my radio antenna affect the Drive Sleek? No. Your radio antenna shouldn’t affect the performance of the Drive Sleek. To avoid potential issues, install the booster’s external antenna at least 6 to 12 inches away from the radio antenna.

[@ALMX5DP]

Interesting that they say it shouldnt affect it, but to still mount their antenna away from it..

[@rondail5675]

Well Alex, I would appreciate more videos testing auto gadgets. Thanks. Ideas: Oil Additives, seat covers, all-weather floor mats, LED light replacement, decals, truck bed protectors, window wind-Deflectors, gas brands, truck tie-down straps, undercoating, 100 ways to use WD40, ........

[@tickle-4797]

💯

[@Cirby-jv6lp]

I can tell you all season floor mats are entirely worth the money, weather tech is my go to every time. One downside is it’s hard to get them entirely cleaned off. But it’s worth it.

[@Daywalker777r]

Yes to all and especially undercoating

[@metsfaninct]

Interesting that your truck bed is cleaner than the outside and inside of your truck 😂.

[@salvadorquincy4599]

Cause many people buy truck and don't use them for there intended purpose. Stupid huh

[@anthonyc1883]

Aww, c'mon, are you bustin' the young guy's chops? Maybe he doesn't haul but the dirty exterior/interior shows he takes it offroad, which is certainly another great use for a pickup truck

[@metsfaninct]

@@anthonyc1883 I understand his use case. I was just surprised by how pristine it looked. I can't comment on people owning trucks and not using them for their intention because I have two trucks on order and once I get one it might hold some plywood once in a while from home depot or some furniture that my wife found at a restore store.

[@anthonyc1883]

@@metsfaninct Cool. I'm glad you weren't ragging on him. Alex seems like a legit guy but sometimes no matter what you do, some of the viewers here just hammer people.

[@joeyh7796]

i’ve had my 21 silverado z71 7 months and the bed definitely has seen use and is dirty as shit. i’ve never washed it it’s a bed idgaf i had a toolbox so a lot of crap gets stuffed under that, i’ll clean it out every once in awhile

[@micheldionne5882]

I got the one with the bigger stick antenna for truckers and use it to get signal at my travel trailer. I attached the antenna to a broom stick and positioned it over the roof of the trailer and it actually works in getting 2 bars instead of 0. Great product for us.

[@Dia1Up]

I used to you at The Source, we sold LOTS of cell boosters due to our area. In VERY glad you pointed out it doesn't create service, it makes what is there better. You wouldn't believe how many people didn't understand that

[@Chris_at_Home]

One of my duties at a communications engineering place I worked at in the first half 1990s was installing mobile cell phones which had higher power. There were also cradles to hold a handheld phone to give it power and connect to the external antenna. The phones then actually had a place to plug an antenna cable into it. I used to do this on some pretty expensive vehicles.

[@WW-wf8tu]

Def. miss these tech. videos. I have a friend I am going to forward this video to that has similar issues. It is a shame providers force the masses to buy these products, but it is what it is. Thanks Alex!

[@CO84trucker]

I've used signal boosters from Wilson/WeBoost in my personal and company trucks here in southwest Colorado. One time at work I was first on scene at a car accident in a dead zone and was able to get a 911 call in with signal booster!

[@jayjorgensen2024]

Side Note: Lots of Texans live in my small town in Eastern Montana. They're here on work related stuff. About 90% of their trucks have a Cell Boosters. But I'm not sure of the brands, but they look expensive.

[@youngblood23rb]

Been using these for years they work great for cell signal and data speed increases, they will not create a signal but if one exists it will definitely improve it

[@jayrichards3672]

I've had similar experience. I wish it would work like the Linear's increased power on citizen band "radioes"

[@tblack7191]

It works for data as well or just calls?

[@youngblood23rb]

@@tblack7191 Data as well

[@badgerpa9]

Alex in your situation the booster is giving A Touchy & Terrible phone company time to do the handoff to another tower, they need to look at the programming in that tower. The boosters can work well, had one in my truck that I could run up a long mast to get the antennae up high to get a reception and had one at the cabin for years that worked until they carriers changed to new bands and gave up the old band wave the boosters was able to amplify. Look up what bandwidth your carrier is using in the area you are and make sure that your phone works on that bandwidth; often when carriers change bandwidth for new tech the older phones will not work. I ripped at&t but they used to work way beyond the area on the map and do not anymore, verizon is verinon in many areas they show on the map as working. When the government unit designed to keep the wireless carriers in line for the users goes golfing and partying with the heads of the carriers you will not have happy users. Great review Alex.

[@bryanduke1]

We have the WeBoost Drive Reach OTR mounted in our Ram 3500 and it works great. We also have the WeBoost Home Complete mounted in our fifth wheel. Both units are more powerful than the unit you reviewed and work much better. I had the one you tested also but it wasn’t as powerful as I wanted so I upgraded. The Home Complete will often give us service when we have no bars on our phone. It uses a directional antenna and I use an app to locate the nearest tower.

[@LionRunner]

When there is no service can't beat my Garmin inReach. I love it because I can use my phone to text (when not driving ofcause) and inReach will send the message.

[@conduit242]

Only TMobile has licensed access to the 4G long range spectrum (they bought it), getting amazing signal in the deep mountains…it’s a life saver!

[@mandytuning]

A freq that do better on high density foliage forest or buildings walls is not the same freq that do better on long ranges.

[@bradysimmons84]

We use them in the oilfield. They work. The antenna they come with aren't as good as some other upgrades

[@captdramamine]

You mounted the antenna too close to the other one. They might cause interference with each other. Thank you for testing this though. I've been considering a booster.

[@Martin_from_SC]

Good quality boosters ar e no gimmick. While i've never used a mobile one, but I installed one at my cottage and it has helped immensely with service inside the house.

[@janbullock5025]

Martin which one did you buy and who is your carrier?

[@bostondan77]

Thanks for testing this.

[@ColJonSquall1]

Its ok, Alex, its kind of expected for trucks to get dirty, especially with the offroad packages a lot of us get. Love the colour of paint on your Rebel.

[@zkdadof4]

First respinders rely on BDAs (bidirectional amplifiers), and they're an essential element in buildings.

[@geraldg8327]

Thanks for this product review. I've always been skeptical how well or if these products even work. Glad to see they do.

[@SamBao]

haha, I bumped into this when I was researching signal booster for my BMW, they made an OEM version for my car but it's basically the same idea, except instead of a separate antenna, it is integrated with the antenna that originally came with the car

[@Malc664]

Sometimes I wish I had no signal so I can't imagine getting a booster. :)

[@PVo-1111]

My weBoost works perfectly fine. When you live out in the Texas country roads every truck has a weBoost

[@StarGateSG7]

PRODUCT REVIEW REQUEST: (in-bed fuel tanks) Alex: Please review some 120 litre (45 gallon) to 250 litre (70 gallon) in-bed fuel tanks for the Jeep Gladiator, F150 Tremor, the RAM TRX, the F150 Raptor and any of the 1500 series Chevy or GMC trucks so we can get an idea on how much EXTRA DRIVING RANGE we can expect ON THE HIGHWAY and on FULL ROCK/SAND/MUD off-road trails. By testing various sizes of auxiliary fuel tanks, we can better get an idea how far off-road or how far on-highway we can expect to get even with the extra weight of the added fuel! Try this range test with both DIESEL and GAS trucks! And while you are at it, test how much driving we get when we carry TWO 20 Gallon Jerry Cans of Gas and/or Diesel for extra on-road and offroad driving range! The final results would be very helpful information for us long range highway drivers who might be in an area with few gas stations or driving deep into the offroad hinterlands! V

[@NexxusFire]

I would have liked to see if it can hold navigation. I hate driving along the back woods areas that I'm unfamiliar with and loose navigation because the signal drops down.

[@EricPham-gr8pg]

Becareful in choosing the signal booster because if low quality booster can polute the signals depend on area mus see signal pattern so the booster must work with local signal pattern and self adjust for best intensity and frequency

[@davidmahan4160]

I wonder if it would work if you couple it to the cars shark fin antenna internally using a signal splitter. 🤔

[@paw45]

That adhesive steel disc. Is actually for aluminum bodied vehicles like the 2015 and up Ford F-150.

[@paw45]

As well as glass roof vehicles.

[@wat3rdog25]

Great test and now to see how well it boost outside of the normal service area if possible. I have an area here in NM that I’m lucky to get 1 bar of service. I will be looking into this.

[@erikhaw7313]

Nice ride Alex! Cool review!

[@jayjorgensen2024]

I just came across this video, window shopping products. I live in Rural Montana. Any town outside my small town, is 45+ minutes away, far and between. I have work, friends, and days out to visit between areas that are 2+ hours one way. Through hills, cow farms, etc. Like Texas, there's vast open lands out here. I'll have to check out this product. I know it's been 1+ year since you posted this, is there a follow up on this product you'd like to share about? Thanks, Loren.

[@raktv2023]

Can you please share where to buy link.

[@chuckersw]

I'm distracted by the bird crap on the drivers window... 😆 jk

[@dieseltech139]

Thanks for the very informative content 👍. Greatly appreciated and nice to know that there is a product out there that actually works to improve your cell service when you are in Fringe cell service areas! 👍🇺🇸

[@bmartin7828]

Cool product. Thanks

[@joeparga1070]

Now off road with It in the cradle, would like to see how good it holds the phone in place while getting crazy

[@slingerriggin5226]

Has your back window frame cracked yet?

[@Rcmiller]

i remember year ago , I would buy the hard wire kit for the phone I would buy , because I did a lot of driving and had the same issue , but back then it was more wide spread and hate to say it , my phone would show the signal would get better on the graph, so far mine does not but it works

[@Brandon-ll3ff]

Did anyone else cry as he put a magnet right onto the paint, covered in dust.

[@PaulKamanJr]

Great information, thanks for the video.

[@2-1inffwa97]

Great info still looking for the dirty truck though

[@ricwestdoesitwork]

Have 1 question for you Alex. What cell service do you have? Thanks for sharing the review of the cell booster. I do some traveling with a 5th wheel and this my help with the signal in some places we travel to.

[@anthonyc1883]

He said AT&T.

[@wantsanewvehicle]

He said he has at&t lol

[@ricwestdoesitwork]

@@anthonyc1883 didn’t hear that I should have put my hearing aides on before watching video.

[@ricwestdoesitwork]

@@wantsanewvehicle see comment I made back Anthony C.

[@anthonyc1883]

@@ricwestdoesitwork Nah, Richard, you just need a TFL-approved Drive Sleek Signal Booster! :-)

[@asiandavidp]

I’m thinking about getting one. My work place have 1 signal. By the time I leave the parking lot. I get full coverage like it magically appeared

[@michaelmeyers1827]

Hey I thinking about getting one for my truck when I go to yankton s.d. looks like it works good

[@EricPham-gr8pg]

So choose parking area coincide with best cell nodals

[@StretchingOut]

Sold….Where is the link?

[@Naquito02william]

People working the Oil field and truckers use those amplifiers.

[@DanielGarcia-zz9eg]

That for 4G or 5G?

[@G_de_Coligny]

Usually avoid putting random antennas so close together.

[@stevevice9863]

AT&T...there's your problem.

[@jaredwhite489]

Sat phones have left the chat

[@slowstihatch677]

I came here to yell in the comments section!!! Jk, cool truck and great placement of the antenna. Cheers.

[@turner02]

Switch to verizon

[@richfarfugnuven6308]

Probably have to use the adhesive on the new Ford trucks, they are all aluminum now...

[@everclara2061]

Dumb question, is there a way to get this wireless? 🤣

[@janbullock5025]

Great test! I wonder if they have one that can be mounted on your house?

[@loosebolts4537]

Nice test

[@chenkai7327]

He definitely sounds like a salesman

[@brandonobaza8610]

😁 You silly goose, that's not an aluminum plate, it's a steel plate you can glue to aluminum body panels. How's a magnet going to stick to aluminum?

[@jaybartgis5148]

Incredibly lame how you have to keep the phone plugged in for the product to work. Amazing how that can't just be wireless

[@chuckersw]

Wonder why the OEMs don't put these in vehicles?

[@manueloppel]

I had the same thought. Would be a great one-off option to offer, like a block heater.

[@ALMX5DP]

OEMs have been pushing their own wifi hotspots, which is kinda a similar thing but gets you to pay a monthly subscription for it.

[@ALMX5DP]

@@manueloppel oh totally I’m the same. Don’t need to be spending money on something that really doesn’t help me in any significant way. Just providing a potential reason why a signal booster may not be developed into a vehicle, as it doesn’t affect the company’s profit margin.

[@peaceonearth8693]

Spyware not included?

[@niceguyeddy9229]

Looks as clean as my dodge

[@youngrasta612]

Wow that's the dirtiest Ram in the world

[@yotagang3705]

Alex > Andre

[@ornothopter188]

putting receiver antenna away for other antennas or electrical wires should help to increase service even more

[@Ornelas11B]

I also have AT&T here in Michigan. I swear I had better service with my phone in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are places here where my phone switches to 5G and it absolutely sucks! I can’t do anything on my phone if I’m connected to 5G. Garbage!

[@shawnsmith4155]

Turn off 5G

[@foellerd]

If it can't help create service where non exists then it does nothing for me. I dont want to buy an expensive GPS phone. *will not work, for me

[@thomasdeangelo1655]

How can you do truck things with such a small bed?

[@ALMX5DP]

What "truck things" are you thinking of?

[@peaceonearth8693]

Says it's not a princess truck. Later in the video talks about running wires under the carpet. Oh, he has carpet! :-O So warm and fuzzy. Me, under the dried mud I've got a rubber floor, except where the steel shows through.

[@peaceonearth8693]

@MJ A tool? Well I do get whatever jobs I want, done. So, being able is better than being witty. P.S. I don't have friends, I have pawns. :-D

[@peaceonearth8693]

@MJ You might want to add this. I suspect that you're a young keyboard warrior. Meanwhile I'm old school, and by that I mean old. I don't actually know what the current slang word "tool" means. Have fun with your slurs, I don't care. I feel sorry for your apparent generation, all full of plastic chemicals from your junk food diets, (resulting in) probably with little testosterone left in you.

[@revgordon91]

Great video! I too was skeptical about those things. Also, thank you for NOT cleaning your truck. It's good to know that there are people out there who actually don't treat their truck as a princess. I'm tired of seeing pavement princesses. I'll have to look into this product.

[@toyyoda3710]

My full time work truck is two wheel and rarely leaves the pavement

[@wqnd300]

keep the antenna away from other antennas. with having two and even at one point three bars of service you need to get rid of att.

[@docink6175]

That's really not very dirty inside or out

[@DaciaProject]

This seems like an issue for your governor. The US claims to be the greatest country in the world and yet in 2021 you don't have a cell signal in Colorado on a main road? I live here in Romania, basically a 3rd world backwater, and yet we have cell service everywhere and among the fastest fixed internet in the world. . .

[@yotagang3705]

I wanted to buy one but theyre expensive asf

[@steyrproof]

get a Sat. Phone and have service anywhere.

[@ALMX5DP]

How much are sat phones these days?

[@mikebelcher5111]

How much are those these days

[@roywall8169]

Interesting product, but I have no need for it. Verizon has excellent coverage here in Utah.

[@EDHBlvd]

Big surprise, you have service issues with AT&T. HAHA. I am a fellow AT&T subscriber who is frustrated by generally poor cell service.

[@skyhawk21]

Get Verizon then

[@badgerpa9]

Check what bandwidth the carrier are using in your area and see if the phone has that bandwidth, sometimes carriers go to a different bandwidth in an area and the phone may be having to connect to an antennae a distance away. There are apps that will tell you the tower you are connected to and the reception strength. Carriers do not openly disclose they abandon a bandwidth in a certain area because they may use it again and they pay a lot of money for the bandwidth.

[@shane3674]

Someone once told me that if you own a truck and it isn’t dirty, have a few scratches and dings then you don’t deserve to have one.

[@milehighmaniac100]

I am a delivery driver and run through that area all the time and never issues with dropped calls with Verizon. Now if you can make it through Glenwood Canyon without dropping a call I'll be impressed.

[@DaciaProject]

Lose this! Run an Iridium sat phone!

[@EBMJ]

Hey man I recommend you show before and after results with the reviews on products. You wanna show that you have less bars before, and you get more bars after.

[@TFLnow]

We purchased the device on Amazon. This is a review.

[@mikebelcher5111]

Uh are we watching the same video, that's what he did

[@badgerpa9]

watch the video, he made calls showing he was able to stay on the call.

[@mikebelcher5111]

@@badgerpa9 if u watch the screens truck and phone it shows his service

[@badgerpa9]

@@mikebelcher5111 but you can have bars and crap service, he showed by using the phone and making calls it helped him and that is the best demonstration, he is actually using the device to make calls.

[@qxr20]

aluminum is not magnetic... bush league.

[@masonryman8183]

Get rid of T-Maybe.lol

[@Desert6G]

Did I just watch a 15minute commercial? This was a random video. I regret watching it

[@TFLnow]

That fair because we regret reading this comment.

[@tclg1]

Dirty truck -yelling-

[@daweed980]

No disclaimer saying this video is sponsored by them? Skeeetch

[@TFLnow]

Bought it tested it. No ad

[@JogBird]

this is an ad right? should be labelled as such

[@TFLnow]

We Bought It and Tested It. No ad

[@diegobugz]

Not a fan of this type of video.👎🏼

[@derrickschultz6871]

Clean your truck

[@chaosseat]

Clean your face….

[@skyhawk21]

It doesn’t actually boost your signal. Get a real mobile plan with real company and you won’t lose calls, Verizon or at&t and or total wireless, straight talk, net10 or tracfone, you get Verizon towers or att towers.. T-Mobile sucks and any mvno that uses them.. also if you got old or bad SIM card or older iphone that could be problem. Iphone 13 models get way better WiFi and cell signal compared to previous generations….

[@tomsahunter3395]

Real trucks are no longer magnetic

[@ALMX5DP]

huh?

[@mikebelcher5111]

😂🤣😅😆 now get it right ford's ate no longer magnetic!!! Real trucks are

[@GATORADDAM]

It says right in the instructions not to mount the external antenna near another antenna or at least 6 inches from any obstructions. I really don't like this guy in front of the camera. Although he is a great cameraman.

[@ericl1166]

Alex does a great job especially on TFLbike. The only one they should be getting rid of is Nathan.

[@GATORADDAM]

@@ericl1166 Oh hell no! Nathan is great. He knows good music. Lol. I don't think they should get rid of Alex, just let him do what he's great at, videography. You can always tell when he's behind the camera because the shots and angles are the best. If any changes are needed it would be that Roman should run the operation from behind the scenes and keep his arrogance out of the mix.

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