How to Find the Closest 5G Cell Towers Near You

Hey, this is Brian from disablemycable.com

And today I'm going to tell you how to find the nearest 5G cell towers in your area

Now there are several reasons you might want to do this. I wanted to do it because I have 5G home internet from Verizon and I want to see where

the cell towers were so I could put my home internet gateway in the best location in my home

Or you might be thinking about getting a 5G home internet service

and you want to know if there are 5G towers in your area

Or you may just want to switch cell phone services and you want to see if there's 5G towers in your area as well

Those are all valid reasons, and this tool will work for all of those reasons

Now, the tool I'm going to use is called cellmapper.net. It is a tool that relies on crowdsourced data

So it is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate, but it's pretty accurate

It's good enough to get an idea of how strong the signals are going to be in your area

So let's dive right in. Okay, I'm at cellmapper.net, and you'll see a few pop-ups here

one of which is asking for permission to access your location. You can allow that

That'll save a few steps, but I'm going to block it just to show you how to start from scratch here

agree to the terms of service and close out this cookie banner. And so since I didn't allow

to see my location, I have just a blank screen. So the way to go to your location is to go

to search and enter your city. Okay, great. So I entered. So I entered

Los Angeles and you can zoom in and out using your mouse wheel

Now let's look for some cell towers. So to do that go to provider

And here's where we want to select which cell company to use

Let's start with Verizon. So you'll notice there are a couple options

For Verizon, you're going to want the one with 311 in the name. Okay it pops up with a bunch of results By default it selecting 4G towers

We want 5G. So let's see what happens if we select 5G. All right, we see nothing here

Let's go back. So the reason why we didn't see any 5G towers

is that Verizon currently is putting their 5G infrastructure on top of their 4G infrastructure

They don't actually have any dedicated 5G towers at this time. But I will show you how to filter out the 4G towers to see the ones that do have 5G transmitters on them

But first, let's talk about these green dots. And those represent signal strength as measured by people who had the

cell Mapper mobile app and who allowed it to gather data on their Android phones

All of the data from on Cell Mapper is crowdsourced. So it comes from users and it's not guaranteed to be 100% accurate, but it's pretty close

So let's see what those green dots are. They represent signal strength, as I said, from crowdsourced

data and bright green is the strongest going to dark green and then red is the weakest

and then there are there's there are also red and green towers red meaning unverified and green

meaning verified and that's just because this is all crowdsourced so not all of it is is verified let's

now filter out the four g towers to only see towers that are capable of 5g

So to do that, go to filters and go down to only show 5G ENDC capable towers

Check the box. You'll see a bunch of towers disappeared. So now we're seeing towers that are capable of 5G

Now let's zoom in on one of them and click on it

When you do that you see the actual cell regions associated with that tower Now the thing is not all of those cells necessarily have 5G on them So if now cell 12 here it does say 5G E and D available yes So that means that that one

is capable of 5G. And cell 12 is over here. So if your home is within this area, you'll know that

you have this 5G tower right there. Let's go down here. Yeah, and you'll see here the next cell, cell 14

does not have 5G. Cell 22 does. So you kind of have to scroll through this list

and you can also try clicking on these cells, and it'll jump to them

and you can see which ones have 5G or not. So that's pretty straightforward

And you can see that in the area of this cell, there's a very good signal strength over here

Let's jump on over to T-Mobile and see what that's like. First of all, I'm going to clear my filter, though

So I'm showing all of the towers. Let's jump on over to T-Mobile provider

Now, there are a bunch of T-Mobile. options here. Pick the one with 310 in it

Okay, so T-Mobile also has lots of towers. And let's see if they have any 5G towers

So we'll click on this and click 5G. So T-Mobile does have

5G towers. Okay, let's zoom in and click on one of these

Okay, so we can see the cells associated with this tower

And these, so these don't have the 5G description, but they are 5G towers as denoted by the

NR for new radio. Now T-Mobile also has 4G towers with 5G infrastructure on top of them

find those So you can go to 4G and then do the same filter that we did before And so these are the 4G towers that have 5G capability

Yeah, here's one, 5G, E and DC available, yes. Okay. So it looks like T-Mobile has a mixture of both types

Let's check out AT&T. And AT&T search for the one with 310 in it

Okay, we're looking at 4G towers here. And that is filtered. So you know what, let's get rid this filter so we can just start clean here

Let me refresh the browser here just to make sure. just to make sure

Okay, now we're seeing all of the AT&T towers. Let's see if they have any 5G

So they do not. Let's go back to 4G. And we're going to want to filter

So click only show 5G and just to show 5G and show 5G and DC and you'll see the AT&T towers. Let's zoom in on one of these

Click on it and you see the cells associated with it and we can you know click on the cell

So that one does not have 5G click on this one. This one does

have 5G. So you can see if your home was in this area, this would be your closest 5G tower

So that's it. It's pretty straightforward. Again, this is not 100% guaranteed to be accurate

It's maybe 80% accurate, but it's pretty good to get a feel for the 5G strength in your area

wherever you're looking for, your home or your work. So check it out

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