Question for Max Signal

I guess the "some" improvement you see is better than the "none" I see with the cheaper model. But since I didn't buy it direct, I'll not attribute it to the brand just yet.

 

Here I am paying for Flying J's Internet access because my signal's weak in the back of the truck and I just got frustrated. Wish I knew if Houdini really had the CA-819 or the DBSW-819, as the wired unit would just piss me off. Anyway, 12 hours left of my 34-hour reset. Was completely ready to buy an amplifier at the hook, but they didn't have any. In fact, I haven't seen one of the cell-phone rip-off booths in a truck-stop in over a month. Perhaps I'm just stopping at the wrong places.

 

Ok, thanks for the info. I'll give him a call tomorrow and tell him to relist it in the classifieds or whatever he did before. I had actually looked up the thread where he won it and it said he won the IVWA819. I wouldn't take a wired unit if I could get it for just the cost of shipping. Guess I'll have to find one of the truckstops that rips ya off on the Wilson amps. $400 isn't horrible for the amp, but they could at least include the antennas.

 

Found a power cord in the J that works for the DBSW819. The light goes bright, then dim, then stays bright when I plug it in. Absolutely 0 gain on my signal back here (my laptop's about 2 feet from the internal antenna). I just don't understand how an amplifier could give absolutely no gain. But like I said, it's probably something the seller on eBay did, not a defect of the product itself. Still drives me nuts. Maybe I'll open it up later and take a peak.