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Actually, it may not be n1, looking at the mast at Nailsea and Backwell station (hello fellow West of England human), B1 4G is broadcasting from there (last seen 10th of March which would suggest it's still there) and I'm not aware that EE is doing DSS on B1.

I would wage my bets on that being n28.
I'm not sure what DSS is but Cell Mapper tells me that the mast at the station (which is a few hundred meters away from us) has both a B1 cell and a separate B3 cell covering us. Since my phone is saying "Band info 3" doesn't it seem like this would be the B3 cell? And from what I can understand about how 5G is being used, it is sometimes "farmed out" to older 4G frequencies so if my phone is showing 5G on B3 that should be N3, right? The numbers stay the same and the letters change from B to N when it's 5G?

Edit: Google just told me this: "Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS for short) is a new antenna technology that for the first time enables the parallel use of LTE and 5G in the same frequency band. The technology determines the demand for 5G and LTE in real-time. The network then divides the available bandwidth independently and decides dynamically for which mobile communications standard it ideally uses the available frequencies. For the user, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing means: If you surf with a 5G smartphone within the radius of an antenna equipped with the technology, you are surfing in the 5G standard. On the other hand, if you surf with a 4G phone within the signal range of the same antenna, you surf with 4G. In short: one antenna, two networks."
 
I'm not sure what DSS is but Cell Mapper tells me that the mast at the station (which is a few hundred meters away from us) has both a B1 cell and a separate B3 cell covering us. Since my phone is saying "Band info 3" doesn't it seem like this would be the B3 cell? And from what I can understand about how 5G is being used, it is sometimes "farmed out" to older 4G frequencies so if my phone is showing 5G on B3 that should be N3, right? The numbers stay the same and the letters change from B to N when it's 5G?

Edit: Google just told me this: "Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS for short) is a new antenna technology that for the first time enables the parallel use of LTE and 5G in the same frequency band. The technology determines the demand for 5G and LTE in real-time. The network then divides the available bandwidth independently and decides dynamically for which mobile communications standard it ideally uses the available frequencies. For the user, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing means: If you surf with a 5G smartphone within the radius of an antenna equipped with the technology, you are surfing in the 5G standard. On the other hand, if you surf with a 4G phone within the signal range of the same antenna, you surf with 4G. In short: one antenna, two networks."
DSS is dynamic spectrum sharing. Basically because of how 5G wavelengths are similar to 4G ones, they can alternate every millisecond for a band to broadcast on both 5G and 4G. Isn't really used because the 5G performance isn't that great.

I think the band 3 just shows that you're connected to it for 4G, I think it's B3+B3+n28 because the mast doesn't show up as having ENDC enabled (please can someone explain why that is, my local Cornerstone mast has picked up NSA n78 a few times and ENDC isn't enabled apparently according to Cellmapper) but one nearby does
 
To be honest I'm not super bothered about getting very high speeds, if I could get a reliable 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up that would be awesome. At the moment we have 17 Mbps down on ADSL which is working OK for us. But the 0.6Mbps up is a real killer! The key thing for me is decent reliability, stability and low latency so video calls for work run properly.

Anyway I've sent you my postcode, thanks for helping :)

Cell Mapper currently says there are no 5G services but since I get it on my phone I know something is going on, I was assuming it's the B1 and B3 bands.
I've looked at your Post Code you PM me, and can confirm your 5G Coverage is not using n78 5G Bands according to the 5G Coverage Maps I have access to.
 
I think the band 3 just shows that you're connected to it for 4G, I think it's B3+B3+n28 because the mast doesn't show up as having ENDC enabled...
What does B3+B3+N28 mean? They add the bandwidth from 3 frequencies together to get more bandwidth somehow? B3+B3 would be 2 cells running at the same frequencies?
 
I've looked at your Post Code you PM me, and can confirm your 5G Coverage is not using n78 5G Bands according to the 5G Coverage Maps I have access to.
Linking this in case anyone's interested, sucks that there's no n78 at all but n1 does show up


I completely forgot to look at the maps, it's definitely n1 then. Can't be n28 since if you look at n1 and 5G all, there's basically no difference.
 
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What does B3+B3+N28 mean? They add the bandwidth from 3 frequencies together to get more bandwidth somehow? B3+B3 would be 2 cells running at the same frequencies?
Basically, it means all of those bands are aggregated together. Usually, this means that your download speeds are increased thanks to the aggregation and upload speeds too!
 
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