woferry
Member
I think they've had enough trouble with WiFi (both customer's networks sometimes being hard to join, and their own WiFi implementation seeming to be a bit unstable), and 3G cellular being what it is at this point (and I think in many places not destined to last much longer) that they'd rather have as many options as possible. I'm on WiFi as my Gateway is outside and there was no easy way to get ethernet hooked-up (they didn't even suggest it), but the Gateway has fallen off my WiFi a few times, sometimes right after a FW update, once I rebooted my router and it didn't re-join, the other times seemingly unprovoked. The Gateway continued to report data to Tesla / the app over cellular when the WiFi has been down, but it breaks my internal data collection so it's left frustrating gaps in my more detailed/frequent data. Once I had to reset the Gateway, the other times I could simply join its network and rescan to get things going again, but I really do need to figure out how to get it wired so that I hopefully won't have to deal with drop-outs anymore.