WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll ·
02/09/2019 21:34
This one might be quite niche, but I'm hoping that others have experienced issues and found some kind of solution!
We've just returned from two short (touring) caravan breaks in different parts of the country and found, as we have before, that it's virtually impossible to grab any signal whatsoever in the caravan. Occasionally, you can get something if you put the phone right next to an open window (usually takes several page refreshes before anything happens, though).
If there is any signal to be had, it often works slightly better to put the phone in the car and use it as a hotspot for a laptop inside the caravan, but I'd really like the choice to be able to use the phone itself; not expecting a great signal, but just anything functional would do.
Reasons I've heard are that it's because a caravan is a metal box, but so is a car (usually a lot thicker metal), and they don't generally have the same issue.
Using the online signal checkers is pointless as they always just claim that there's a good signal virtually everywhere you try (even when I know for a fact from personal experience that there isn't) - often with the get-out clause that 'indoor coverage may vary', which makes their claims rather meaningless anyway. Do they ever actually acknowledge that certain areas might only have a fair signal or even no usable signal unless you're very lucky?
Has anybody found a solution for this? Massive great big aerial and/or some device? Or do I just have to accept that I can have phone or caravan but not both at the same time?!