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car not finding home wifi - suggestions
- Thread starter skippyinspace
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Others have answered your first question but:
We have a unlimited 4G via Virgin Media for £27 a month ... we have a sim in a wifi router because the land line speed is so low around here. (Virgin recently changed from using the EE network to using the Vodafone network for this. There are other sim only unlimited data options these days.)
Nick77
Deep Blue Model 3 LR (2021 MIC)
I have an unlimited 4G Virgin SIM too.
If you leave the phone in the car and lock it (via keycard) does it stay awake for the entire download, or does it try and go to sleep?
If you leave the phone in the car and lock it (via keycard) does it stay awake for the entire download, or does it try and go to sleep?
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this above?
I bought this soloution for my lack of wifi signal (wifi repeater hotspot that sits in the car). On street parking for me
This unit connects to your home wifi, your car connects to this which sits in your cubby hole.
Setup is very easy, you can add multiple connections (ie work & home). It is powered by the usb in the car. And your car does sleep using this.
When i get home and put the car in Park this auto connects and the car can then check for updates etc.
Had it for over a year and not had a problem yet (touches wooden head!)
I bought this soloution for my lack of wifi signal (wifi repeater hotspot that sits in the car). On street parking for me
This unit connects to your home wifi, your car connects to this which sits in your cubby hole.
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Setup is very easy, you can add multiple connections (ie work & home). It is powered by the usb in the car. And your car does sleep using this.
When i get home and put the car in Park this auto connects and the car can then check for updates etc.
Had it for over a year and not had a problem yet (touches wooden head!)
Nick77
Deep Blue Model 3 LR (2021 MIC)
Interesting cheers.
I don't see how that boosts speeds though. If the mini hotspot can see enough WiFi signal to repeat it then surely so can the car.
What was it like before you used it?
The Model 3 (2019 model especially) has crap wifi. Not sure about the MIC version. You literally have to park the car on top of the router for it to connect to your home wifi router.
This sorted out my problem and many others on here.
Nick77
Deep Blue Model 3 LR (2021 MIC)
May be worth trying. I can occasionally pickup my home WiFi if I'm right outside the house but only one bar. I guess that device would make the car see full bars and not have a fit about downloading stuff. It'd just be pretty slow going.
It wont boost speed (might do a little), not sure what wifi chip Tesla uses but i assume its a cheapish one.
What it will do is allow your car to be parked across the road and connect to your home wifi. Assuming you have signal at the front already (Your phone connects with 4 bars but your tesla shows none or 1)
sparkymark75
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It won’t boost the speed, it’ll halve the speed but increase the signal strength/quality. Wireless signal repeaters need to use some of their bandwidth to maintain a link back to the main network, meaning there’s less bandwidth for the client devices.
Nick77
Deep Blue Model 3 LR (2021 MIC)
Thanks. I'll go outside waving my phone in the air walking back and forth to see what sort of signal I get.
That should give the curtain twitchers a good show.
That should give the curtain twitchers a good show.
I think they use Qualcomm/Atheros which is well respected. It is more likely to be a poor antenna design coupled with lots of attenuation in the cable between the antenna and the actual wifi module.
I was so frustrated with the weak WiFi connectivity of my 3 that I ran CAT 6 to my garage to install a WiFi access point within a few feet of the car. The car (mine at least) definitely has 5GHz connectivity. It does seem the car needs a strong nearby signal, whether 2.4GHz or 5GHz to obtain a reliable connection. As mentioned above, Tesla appears only to support the channels used in the USA.
I was having a similar issue but it wasn’t signal strength. My ‘21 Model Y used to connect perfectly to the WiFi and saw all the neighbors but one day it just stopped seeing any at all. A quick reboot (holding down both scroll wheels for 15 seconds) got them all back. Took about 1 min to reboot and I was back online in less than 2.
A very strong recommendation when weird Wifi issues arise is one suggested here somewhere: Boot the computer (apply brake while pushing both scroll wheels, wait for black screen). I was finding no networks. Now normal.
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