I was chatting with one of the IT honchos for our campus, and he was mentioning that the next generation of Cisco APs can also act as repeaters for cellular networks, much like the Cel-Fi. It's some sort of plug-in module. They're pondering running this around the campus as part of their next big planned network upgrade.

I tried calling T-Mobile to complain about the reception in my house, but that was an exercise in teeth pulling, while dealing with the thoroughly incompetent person on the other end who had to keep going on hold to check on things and kept asking me questions about my phone.

What I really want now is an app that tracks signal strength over the whole day alongside GPS location and plots out what it sees. I tried one app, RF Signal Tracker, which just didn't run properly. I'm now trying out Network Signal Info. That one seems to mostly work, although if you want to extract data from it you need the "pro" version. And it mysteriously reports a high signal strength when it's disconnected from the network. Sigh.