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nothing but trouble with home internet
Hi, all. I started out a few months ago with a Nokia gateway and it worked well until it didn't. It started randomly dropping out throughout the day and night. I had it replaced with another Nokia, w...
Nicole S,
Based upon the post “geodork” made I would guess if/when the use of the tower locater funciona then the application will report the "LAC #". I have not seen the OpenSource application be successful in finding any towers here and I can point my phone at two towers and it fails to locate either. I turned off the WIFI on my phone to rule out influence via the WIFI signal and it made no difference. Some people find OpenSignal helpful but it is a free application so hard to complain.
If you have an iPhone:
Field Test Mode > dial *3001#12345#*
This will report the cellular signal your phone uses. It is perfectly safe and native to the iPhone. There are network scanner applications for Android you can try. Keep in mind the tower your phone connects to may not be the same as the home internet router.
I used cellmapper.net when on my MAC and found it to be much more helpful. Cellmapper.net is one of the better browser tools, is free, and has around 80% accuracy. User updates to the database dictate how much information is there. You can search for 4G LTE and 5G NR signals. If you have the Nokia router and can see the PCI, physical cell identifiers then you can use that to find the tower.
