BFG
Regular Member
I'm investigating problems with my local mast.
I have a directional antenna pointed at the closest mast, but my speeds suffered a sudden drop in Apr (details in separate thread).
In 2016 when adding my antenna, I had access to mastdata, which helped when lining things up. But I'm trying to use cellmapper today.
LTE H-Monitor seems to tell me that I am not connected to my nearest mast, I'm connected to one in a town behind it, a further two miles away.
What's making diagnosis hard are two things.
The tower I intend to connect to is not on cellmapper at all, there is no listing (and I can't find a way to add it). So I can't find an identifier for it.
The mast LTE H-Monitor tells me I'm connected to appears twice on cellmapper.
Same CellID, same geo location, but two different eNB Ids
LTE H-Monitor uses the same IDs as cellmapper, but it's not clear if these are "official" numbers reported as meta-data via the SIM card and actual network, or of LTE H-Monitor is performing a lookup somehow from cellmapper.
Presumably the eNB ID refers to different kit on the same physical tower?
I'd like to find specific numbers that I can quote to Three. Please can anyone advise which numbers would be best to use.
I'd prefer not to share specific locations, apologies.
I have a directional antenna pointed at the closest mast, but my speeds suffered a sudden drop in Apr (details in separate thread).
In 2016 when adding my antenna, I had access to mastdata, which helped when lining things up. But I'm trying to use cellmapper today.
LTE H-Monitor seems to tell me that I am not connected to my nearest mast, I'm connected to one in a town behind it, a further two miles away.
What's making diagnosis hard are two things.
The tower I intend to connect to is not on cellmapper at all, there is no listing (and I can't find a way to add it). So I can't find an identifier for it.
The mast LTE H-Monitor tells me I'm connected to appears twice on cellmapper.
Same CellID, same geo location, but two different eNB Ids
LTE H-Monitor uses the same IDs as cellmapper, but it's not clear if these are "official" numbers reported as meta-data via the SIM card and actual network, or of LTE H-Monitor is performing a lookup somehow from cellmapper.
Presumably the eNB ID refers to different kit on the same physical tower?
I'd like to find specific numbers that I can quote to Three. Please can anyone advise which numbers would be best to use.
I'd prefer not to share specific locations, apologies.























