OpenSignal and Optus Cell towers

[Dave Kimble]

I live in Australia and have a new Optus X Start, which runs Nougat Go version.
I have a very poor signal at home, so I have an external Yagi antenna with a booster/repeater, that gets me 5 bars.
When I use OpenSignal to fine tune the direction of my Yagi, it tells me it is connected to an Optus cell tower located in dense rainforest in a National Park, with a cell id and LAC. I don't believe this is correct.
I can't find anything relating these cell id and LAC numbers to any Optus list of towers in Australia.
Can anyone guide me to how to find which tower I'm connected to?

 

[mikedt]

Could try Cell ID, that should tell you the ID number of the cell tower that your phone is actually using.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ketancomputers.cellid

As for the actual locations and geography of OPTUS towers, no idea.

 

[Dave Kimble]

Trying OpenSignal on 3 smartphones and a tablet (without a SIM):

Model Cell ID LAC Dir Tower
Optus X: 177035542 37265 NW Optus wrong
Samsung : 43021 7046 N Optus wrong
ZTE Blade: 146506497 28792 S Telstra
Xgody V7: no towers
Can anyone find these Cell Ids or LACs?