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Bob:
Exactly, if there is no signal the Cel-Fi will no magically provide one.

I have had the CelS-Fi Pro at home for about 8 years now. I live in a metal framed house with steel roof plus sisalation in the wall, a big Faraday cage. With hour the Cel-Fi I have zero bars but full signal with it.

Cost me $1,600 back in 2013 but worth every cent.

257Bob:

--- Quote from: JS on Jun 05, 2021, 04:20:36 PM ---I think most people looking for the best Australian coverage go with Telstra. Optus, Vodafone etc have patchy outback coverage at best.

Cheers
Jim

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Agree.  A few years ago I needed to call the NRMA as I locked my keys in the car out bush.  No coverage with Optus but my mates all had coverage with Telstra.  I went back to Telstra after that.

jazzeddie1234:
For remote areas I use a 3g/4g dongle with external antenna ports and 1 of 2 antennas - one creatively described as a 35dbi (about $20 and looks like a cross) easy to hang somewhere and can get an extra bar of signal, and one that is a yagi (about $40 and looks like a small tv antenna) that is fussy to aim correctly but can get extra 2 bars.  The yagi has a long cable which is good when camped behind a hill.

My regular phone is optus (through exetel).

Telstra generally wins over optus but I refuse to pay telstra prices so use either their $30/$40 prepaid starter kits often sold in officeworks at 1/2 price, or Boost when they have a sale, and I'm going for aldi next trip.  Resellers get exactly the same telstra network access/coverage but a telstra sold sim gets you access to their free wifi when in a town.

yvesjv:

--- Quote from: BlackandBlue on Jun 05, 2021, 04:02:22 PM ---Considering Cel Fi Go Optus Repeater/Booster for my 2020 Dmax LS-U(do i need one?

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Been remote places and not so remote too.
Telstra wins hands down and that is thanks to the tax payers money when it was Telecom Australia.

But that is about to end with the deployment of Starlink.
https://www.starlink.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
Let's wait and see what their roaming solutions will look like.

Not sure how Telstra, Murdoch and their manservants in Canberra will try to circumvent the loss of their monpolies but this is happening... and fast as they are increasing their coverage/deployment

verden:
jazzeddie1234 the Telstra reseller network is on the Telstra wholesale network which is different to the full Telstra network which Telstra/Boost use. In some areas you will get Telstra coverage only if your on Telstra/Boost. Belong, Aldi, Woolworths and others get less coverage. I'm on Boost and the wife is on Belong and there are places that i have coverage and she doesn't. We travel regularly between Adelaide and Darwin and Optus has good coverage in some areas and there is no Telstra at all. Optus resellers use the full Optus network.

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