AT&T Cell Booster and Wyze Cams

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Today 02/22/22 was the day that AT&T turned off their 3G network. I had been using an AT&T microcell (Cisco DPH154). This afternoon I replaced it with a new AT&T Cell Booster (Nokia SS2FII) provided by AT&T. The installation went well (considering that AT&T was involved).

Until…

This evening, I opened the Wyze app on my iPad and NONE of my cameras (v2 and v3) could connect. My first suspicion was Wyze firmware as I had done a mass firmware update last night at bedtime. Uncharacteristically, I didn’t check that they worked after the update.

First I power cycled all the cameras. No improvement.

Then I backleveled the firmware on one of the v2 cameras that I could reach. No improvement.

Then I stopped and restarted my 2.4GHz IoT network. No improvement.

Then I rebooted my router. No improvement.

The rest of my 2.4GHz network seemed to be working fine but I didn’t comprehensively test it. I have Ring Doorbells and Amazon Alexas on it as well.

Hmmm. What else had changed since last night? Ah, ha! The AT&T Cell Booster.

Then I unplugged the power to the AT&T Cell Booster.

All is well. Except my cell coverage.

Does anyone else even have one of these AT&T Cell Booster? Has anyone else experienced this? Anyone have an idea for a workaround?

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I have read of some similar things from signal interference with various IOT devices. I am not sure I have really good suggestions, but if it were me, I would try a few things like:

  • Make sure my router and the AT&T booster are fairly far apart from each other and see if that helps in any way.
  • Try to change the router channel to a different channel and see if that helps
  • Temporarily move a camera right next to the Router and see if it connects well.

If anything else comes to mind I will let you know, but those are things I would try off the top of my head. I hope changing the channel the WiFi is using can help in some way. You might also ask AT&T if there is anything in their device that can be slightly changed to see if it can minimize signal interference with your devices as you seem to be experiencing.

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Looks like that device uses a wired connection to your router and has no WiFi itself? I wonder why the mobile transmission would interfere.

Hmm, on paper 4G and LTE aren’t supposed to be very close to either the 2.4 Ghz or 5 Ghz WiFi bands but I guess radio is radio…

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We use our Wi-Fi calling since its free,no need for cell coverage at home