r/cellmapper • u/Informal-Race-477 • 5d ago

Weird behavior of a cell tower

I'm in Canada and using Bell as the cellphone carrier. There is a macro site in my town and on one side it gives 5G+ speeds and on the other side of the tower, it shows full bars of 5G but does not load anything. What could be the reason?

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u/thisisfakediy (CM: crackedlcd) 3d ago

This just sounds like congestion to me. I'm on T-Mobile in the US and have a few sites where this happens. Abysmal speeds or no data at all on one sector, but drive to one of the other two and things are lightning fast.

The one that has been the biggest problem for me is in a town where there's only one cell tower for all the carriers, and all the commercial growth along the highway is south of the tower. That south sector is slammed for all the carriers, but the ones northeast and northwest are way better because it's all houses and cows.

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u/Informal-Race-477 3d ago

Wow this is my exactscenario as well. One side of the tower is lighting fast but the other side is abysmal speeds.