Moto X 2014 LTE Discovery

[oldDummy]

Greetings all.
I don't know enough to interpret these readings from LTE Discovery app.
Could somebody with knowledge explain what these reading mean?
Specifically: Cell level: ?
If more info is needed I'll post other info.
TIA

 

[someguy01234]

Re: LTE Discovery

I'm guessing that app allow you to discover LTE cell towers and it found a few. For me, a signal strength of -85dBm can be considered 4-5 bars and very good. Above -100dBm is acceptable, but won't get you the best throughput. -105dBm or lower tends to be 1 to 2 bars and not very good speed and lower than that is when your signal will began to cut out.

 

[kg4icg]

Re: LTE Discovery

You can ask the app developer your questions, he responds to emails that are sent to him.

 

[oldDummy]

Re: LTE Discovery

I'm guessing that app allow you to discover LTE cell towers and it found a few. For me, a signal strength of -85dBm can be considered 4-5 bars and very good. Above -100dBm is acceptable, but won't get you the best throughput. -105dBm or lower tends to be 1 to 2 bars and not very good speed and lower than that is when your signal will began to cut out.

Thanks for the heads up. It's more than I knew.
Regarding Cell level, I'm wondering if it refers to Cat. 4?
that would make it very interesting to me.
TIA
EDIT: As suggested, I sent an email to the apk author.

 

[someguy01234]

Re: LTE Discovery

No, cell level is something else and related to how the tower work. You should ask the app dev to explain it.

Cat.4 LTE simply means it have a download capability of 150Mbps.

3GPP release	User equipment category	Maximum L1 datarate downlink	Maximum number of DL MIMO layers	Maximum L1 datarate uplink
Release 8	Category 1	10.3 Mbit/s	1	5.2 Mbit/s
Release 8	Category 2	51.0 Mbit/s	2	25.5 Mbit/s
Release 8	Category 3	102.0 Mbit/s	2	51.0 Mbit/s
Release 8	Category 4	150.8 Mbit/s	2	51.0 Mbit/s
Release 8	Category 5	299.6 Mbit/s	4	75.4 Mbit/s
Release 10	Category 6	301.5 Mbit/s	2 or 4	51.0 Mbit/s
Release 10	Category 7	301.5 Mbit/s	2 or 4	102.0 Mbit/s
Release 10	Category 8	2,998.6 Mbit/s	8	1,497.8 Mbit/s
Release 11	Category 9	452.2 Mbit/s	2 or 4	51.0 Mbit/s
Release 11	Category 10	452.2 Mbit/s	2 or 4	102.0 Mbit/s

 

[oldDummy]

Re: LTE Discovery

Just a heads up:
Got a prompt reply from apk author: Cell level refers to signal strength 0-4 with 4 being strongest.
Thanks for your suggestions, help.