On 11 Oct 2009, at 03:34, Mikhail Umorin wrote: > ... > I am just really interested in why so many towers? Here is a > log with deep sleep disabled. It started around 2009-10-09 21:00 > > [2009-10-10 06:15:17.647316] Signal : cid=2DF1, lac=2775 > [2009-10-10 06:15:51.057840] Signal : cid=4508, lac=2775 > [2009-10-10 07:14:58.962122] Signal : cid=2DF1, lac=2775 > [2009-10-10 07:15:31.443058] Signal : cid=4508, lac=2775 > [2009-10-10 07:43:48.193318] Signal : cid=2DF1, lac=2775 > [2009-10-10 07:44:22.093633] Signal : cid=4508, lac=2775 > [2009-10-10 12:43:26.834672] Signal : cid=2DF1, lac=2775 > [2009-10-10 12:43:50.832594] Signal : cid=4508, lac=2775 > > > so, I guess, this is "normal" >
I would imagine towers from different companies is part of it. Also, there are going to be areas on the edge of coverage where your phone can detect the signal, but reception would be very poor (frequent drop outs &c). So the distribution of cell towers will reflects that - enough so there's always one you get good coverage from, and incidentally there will always be some more distant ones your phone can recognise. If I'm understanding this right, the phone may be registering with these more distant towers, which might beg the "why" question. But it's likely the cell companies have lots of towers with overlapping coverage, so it's surely not a problem. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community