Where to physically place Network Extender within house for best cellular coverage?

I have a 2 story house with all my networking equipment in my basement home office. My goal is to locate the network extender where it will offer me the broadest coverage throughout my house. Should I place it on the main floor? Top floor? Attic? Or just leave it in the basement?
As a comparison, I have a wi-fi repeater on my top floor which does a pretty good job of broadcasting a wi-fi signal throughout the house and well into my back yard. Just wasn't sure whether this would be the same case with the network repeater or not.
Also, I've verified my phone is registered and using the network extender, but should I also be seeing the number of cell signal bars increase at well? Standing 4 feet away from it, I'm able to make calls fine, but I'm still only seeing 1-2 bars on my Razr Maxx HD (4G).
Thanks,
Tim

I have noticed this behavior, too, with the network extender. I live on top of a small mountain, right off a major interstate on the PA/NJ border and regularly experience my phone service connecting to a tower in either state.. When I'm connecting to a NJ tower, I typically have 4G LTE service, but when I roam onto the PA tower, I typically see 3G service. If my phone was last in 3G mode when I enter my house (and thus connect to my network extender), my phone's cellular signal shows 4-5 bars, whereas if I happened to be in 4G mode when I come in the house and connect to the network extender, it will show between 0 and 2 bars.....but regardless of how many signal bars I see, I'm still able to make crystal-clear phone calls whereas I regularly experienced dropped calls before getting the network extender.
Overall, I think it's great so far....and the extender is still sitting in my "test" location right in one corner of my basement, but it allows me to make calls all over the house and even into my yard. The only thing I've been noticing is some difficulty in sending/receiving texts. I had a couple separate instances this weekend where I wasn't getting replies to my texts, but as soon as i moved out of range of my network extender, I got a flood of them.
Tim
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