Transmission towers / cell utilization as OpenData

Good day

An exciting story is the idea of ​​OpenData.

The mobile phone providers will probably know how busy their transmission towers/cells are on average on which days/times.

Unfortunately, I have to evaluate mobile internet access for my home office at short notice. And as you can easily imagine, neither my Arbeitgeber nor I have the time/nerve for it

Tests to see how busy the antenna is on working days where I live.

If there is an interface to such data, I would like to thank you in advance for a brief information.

Thank you very much

Best regards

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The utilization of a mobile phone antenna (cell) is measured with ping. You don’t need a “quark” like OpenData for this.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(Data%C3%BCtransmission)

Ping is a command line tool included with the operating system.

# ping tick.switch.ch

The packet round-trip time (RTT) for a “shared medium” largely depends on the utilization of the mobile phone antenna.

[https://mobilecommunity.ch/wbb/index.php?thread/326-salt-fiber-oder-salt-unlimited-surf-f%C3%BCr-heimnetzwerk/&postID=2526#post2526] (https://mobilecommunity.ch/wbb/index.php?thread/326-salt-fiber-oder-salt-unlimited-surf-f%C3%BCr-heimnetzwerk/&postID=2526#post2526)

The packet round-trip time (RTT) is short if the mobile radio antenna on the air interface has enough free transmission and reception time slots (more precisely: resource block => RB) (=> low utilization).

The packet round-trip time (RTT) skyrockets (> 100 milliseconds) if the mobile radio antenna on the air interface has too few free transmission and reception time slots (=> high utilization).

For “home office” the internet connection should be implemented redundantly. See the last section under:

[https://community.upc.ch/t5/Internet-mit-Modem/Diagnose-Tool-der-Connect-Box-says-quot-Your-Heim/m-p/100045/highlight/true#M4573] (https://community.upc.ch/t5/Internet-mit-Modem/Diagnose-Tool-der-Connect-Box-says-quot-Your-Heim/m-p/100045/highlight/true#M4573)

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Ping says nothing about real workload.

And a provider will never make their data available voluntarily.

Utilization rates simply vary too much to make reliable statements.

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Hello

Thanks for the interesting links on data technology.

I also see redundancy or a UPS as desirable.

There are routers on the market that are intended to use an LTE connection not only as a fallback but also in a combined form. Comparable to the SC product “Internet Booster”. Of course it would be perfect if you could bundle DSL, COAX and LTE in one router.

Since we still have an ADSL2 connection here, there should be fewer problems with the third-party routers - IMO.

Bottom line, I just need to have a stable internet connection with modest up/down.

And currently all I have left is the choice (or combination) of

UPC

Mobile network

SC ADSL2 (previously/still)

Best regards

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