Just updating myself again on this investigation, I found this message on Reddit where someone was actually debugging 5G NSA network usage with an SDR, and according to the information there the 5G...

There's another situation where the internet view behaves a bit strangely. Whenever the PCC band changes, the app goes into an inconsistent state where the Network Type is 5G, but the PCI in 5G NR...

@madvinegar Yeah, it is my understanding as well that in NSA mode the 4G LTE core is used for control plane functions to authorise the 5G bands. However, if we look at screenshots from for example...

Replying to myself here, but while browsing through the forum I found this post interesting, because the drawn map there explains the geographical location of my Deco X50-5G pretty well. It also...

Hi, I live pretty much in the middle of multiple cell towers, because of that the reception is fairly weak and depends on the weather. I replaced my old LTE modem with a X50-5G and an external MIMO...