Yes, without an unlimited cell plan, usage is limited and often to a low number. You'd get one of these, or use a smartphone in hot spot mode, if you can't get adequate internet service in a wired format (cable or DSL or fiber) but you can get a cell signal. A way to think of it, it makes an analog home phone into a cell phone with a hotspot. After paying for the hardware, it's billed as if it's another cellphone on your family plan and the usage (from connected devices) is added to the total. I checked, Verizon isn't selling these gadgets anymore. Most people have long since abandoned their "home phone" or landline numbers if not ported to a cell phone or switched to some kind of VOIP provider. These are falling into disuse because you can get exactly the same capabilities except the analog "home phone" by putting a cell phone into hot spot mode. Having it on won't affect in-use mobile phones in the home using the same carrier at all. A home phone base station has a socket to plug in an analog phone (thus, "landline" phone service wherever it is turned on, using the same number) plus a wifi signal just like a cell phone in hot spot mode that devices can connect to, using the data link of the base station's cell connection. Perhaps she too misunderstood the topic, leading to the misinformation in her comment.Ĭrafty, what this sounds like isn't a range extender at all but rather a cellular home phone base station. Of course all phones can use wifi for a data signal anyway so this isn't that either.Īcraftylady seems to have not returned to this thread, having not answered my question. My comment about the setting for Wifi telephony, to get a better phone signal where the reception isn't strong, has nothing to do with using a phone as a hot spot. What I said was for phones that have a setting to route telephony over wifi (as most do), this device isn't needed. I think other carriers offer something similar too. It has nothing to do with home wifi or LAN other than connecting to it (ethernet?) for the internet pathway back to Verizon. Think of it as a personal, short range mini Verizon cell tower in the home. The Verizon network extender is a device that connects to the internet and rebroadcasts a cell signal. Kudzu, I think you've misunderstood the question and the comments. On a related issue, it doesn't seem that this type of question belongs on the Computer board, but there doesn't seem to be another, more appropriate one from Houzz, except for Electronics, where I also posted this. Any suggestions on how to get some device, preferably without paying $350? There is a lot of discussion on the Verizon web site about cellular boosters, but that's not the same thing. While researching for this post, I went on line and found out that the Samsung network extender from Verizon is no longer available. They told me "there's no way my friend could have gotten one for free", and that it would cost $350 now. When mine failed, I went back to the store and tried to get another one, this time for free. I later found out that a friend of mine, with a similar situation, got one for free, she told me that that they gave it to her because their cellular coverage was weak at her home. The cellular signal from Verizon at my home has always been very weak, so several years ago I purchased a network extender from the Verizon store (for $250).
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