Hello Mikrotik fans
Happy Chateau 5G owner here (the D53G-5HacD2HnD) ! Having poor signal at some place, I'm lucky to have this antenna for which I'm trying to adjust the angle and orientation. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to map out fields from RouterOS like Current Cell ID, eNB ID, Sector ID, and PHY Cell ID with actual antennas outside
Here in France we have https://www.cartoradio.fr/ (and some up-to-date open data we can download) where we can type in an address and zoom out the map to find installed antennas, which we can filter by provider, 3g/4g/5g etc... Problem being : no ID from cartoradio matches any of those displayed on the MikroTik interface
The MikroTik LTE documentation recommends using Cell Id Finder but it doesn't seem to work anymore. Had more luck with CellMapper where I finally could find the "antenna site" displayed on the map with the "eNB ID" MikroTik field. When clicking on the antenna site on CellMapper, on the details I can find the "Current Cell ID" my MikroTik is telling me it's connected on. Problems being:
- The "Current Cell ID" details on CellMapper does not seem accurate (or I'm so lucky I'm getting signal going in another direction than mine from an antenna at ~10km distance ).
- From time to time, my MikroTik is connecting to some other antenna which seems to bring me faster speed, so I'd love to adjust my external antenna but I cannot find the relevant "eNB ID" on CellMapper (probably a newer antenna site not registered there yet) so I don't know where it is on the map.
That said, here comes the questions (numbered to ease potential answers):
1. does anyone know of a tool that would accurately help me find the best direction from my place to a provider antenna? I've seen screenshots with elevation profiles and details like that, but cannot find the software that generated those. Such a software would be of great help to start with
2. I'd be happy to try all antennas displayed on my MikroTik through the LTE Cell Monitor, but this tool only displays a 3 digits "PHY Cell ID" which I cannot map out to the "eNB ID"! Would someone know how to find the "eNB ID" from the "PHY Cell ID" so that I could find it the map and position my antenna accordingly? I've seen the Cell ID Calculator but it needs the "eNB ID" to give you the "PHY Cell ID" (and more), not the other way around...
3. can someone point me to some piece of documentation explaining what "Primary Band" and "CA Band" are ? From MikroTik doc, I know I could lock those, but I don't know what they are
Thank you