Please Help Me - Mabank,TX

Yes. We have a metal home too. Went to Best Buy and bought a "cell phone booster" for $300. Basically there's a unit you mount outside (on a tree or pole) and run a cable from the unit into the house (we have a small hole in our house running the cord. It's temporary, as we don't even have walls up on that part of the house yet, but I'm sure there are instructions included with the booster that tell you how to make it work nicely in your house.)

btw - we have T-Mobile. I used to have to go outside to be able to talk on the phone. I could find a spot to set my phone and at least hear it ring or get a text message. But the booster allows me to walk thru the whole house and have a great signal.

added - we had Magic Jack. Worked fine when talking to people on landlines but we did NOT renew ours b/c when talking to people on cell phones, it was very difficult to hear them.

My parents live out in the country so far they can't get a good signal. Verizon offers a 'wireless extender' but you need an internet high speed connection with a router hooked up in order to hook it up, and it's about $200-300 (it may be cheaper now that it's been in the market for a year or two).

I have no idea how to make it work. Perhaps contact the mobile home company and see if they know how to deal with it. If you have a computer that you can keep on all the time, try magic jack (I got it at radio shack). I use it as a land line and it works fine. Good luck!

There is a booster that you can get. I work in a metal building and we all were roaming. My manager purchased a booster and now our calls go through just fine. We're w/ Verizon but I am sure other companies have something similiar.

I used to live in an apartment with firewall separating the units, and NO ONE could ever get cell reception. I called my provider and they were able to do something on their end to boost reception at no cost... it helped a little, but not a lot :(

Walmart is between us and the tower that the signal comes from. Our mobile home has little to do with the signal though. It has to do with the obstacles in the way of the signal getting to you. If you had different phones you would probably get different reception with each one.

I can use my friends AT&T I-Phone anywhere in my home, EVERYWHERE inside my mobile home but my old phone would be roaming in the living room, no signal in the bedroom, losing a call every 10-15 seconds in the kids bedroom and if I stood in the office window and held my head just right I could talk on the phone as long as I wanted.

My new android phone, well the first one, did not get a good signal anywhere in the house that would stay connected. I could not go down the road and stay on a phone call, being on the internet on the phone was nuts too. The charge portal broke and we could not charge it so it was replaced. The replacement phone was totally possessed and rebooted randomly after midnight over and over and over. If I did not turn the sound off it would keep up awake, since I use it as my alarm clock I could not turn it off.

So I got a replacement replacement phone and this phone is totally awesome. It holds on to the phone calls everywhere in the house and outside too. I can get on the internet almost anywhere too. My mobile home has little to no effect on the signal, it is the quality of reception of the phone, the distance to the tower and the actual location of the tower that your signal is coming from, you moved and it may be across the road but not pointing at your house, therefore not emitting a quality signal towards your home.

I don't know what you can do. We live in a "regular" house, and we have trouble getting signals lots of times. I hate that.