I read somewhere that openvpn was in use. Good odds some, all, or most, traffic goes through a server at a Tesla datacenter. It must make things fun for China. Hopefully they are not trying to pipe all traffic through California or that would pretty much guarantee a poor experience.
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It looks like I have LTE enabled
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I read somewhere that openvpn was in use. Good odds some, all, or most, traffic goes through a server at a Tesla datacenter. It must make things fun for China. Hopefully they are not trying to pipe all traffic through California or that would pretty much guarantee a poor experience.
travwill
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So far it would seem, until we verify others get LTE, that it could be late (or last week of) May builds forward.
KORBEN - when was your production start & finish dates?
beeeerock
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I'm in BC, where I understand I'm roaming onto the Rogers network since there is no AT&T up here! My car was delivered on May 20th and has always shown 3G. I just tested using the testof.me site, with 5 bars of 3G showing and got 6.59 Mbps down, 18.45 Mbps up. Ping of 366 to 'San Jose 2' server. I appear to still have the .236 firmware.
Andyw2100
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I think there is definitely something off with that testing site. I did a bunch of tests and got results all over the place. Many were in the range of .3MB download and .6MB upload. Some were 3 or 4MB down and 8 or 9MB up. And one time I actually got over 5MB down and over 18MB up. Many of these tests that gave radically differing results were with the car in the same location.
I did not try a different speed testing site.
travwill
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You should just know by using maps app and zooming to other non-cached locations. LTE should draw the tiles much faster if working versus the laggy 3G redraw we are used to. Let us know...
anticitizen13.7
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This is almost certainly the case. Wireless carriers in the U.S. charge less $ for capped bandwidth connections.
For example, Cricket Wireless (AT&T subsidiary) and T-Mobile Simply Prepaid (lower tier option than "Simple Choice") are less expensive, but capped at 8 Megabits the last time I checked. This is a pretty good deal for people because 8 Mbps is more than good enough for general app usage. Tesla probably gets an even better deal for 5 Megabit service on the AT&T network.
anticitizen13.7
Not posting at TMC after 9/17/2018
Yes. LTE has much lower latency than HSPA+ (3G). Internet stuff should feel "snappier" on LTE even if the capped bandwidth is similar to cars still on HSPA+.
I don't have a lot of time spent in 3g Teslas. Let me try with my friends car. It will be quite a while before I can report back as the best test is likely side by side (hopefully using the same towers and servers/proxys) and we don't always have time to get together.
If I could get iperf installed I could tell you very quickly. Then again, if I could install iperf I would probably have access to a rooted Tesla and would know a lot more vs. my idle speculation on a forum.
ibdb
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- Aaron Renfroe Ξ @Aaronismarried 2h2 hours ago
@TeslaMotors @elonmusk When did Model S's start shipping with LTE. Will the be available for older vehicles as well?
Elon Musk @elonmusk 1h1 hour ago
kuttakamina
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WHOAA! Nice legwork there buddy.
Now I wonder if that "retrofit" applies if you buy the service plan or not.
I just wish my car (end of June delivery, enters build in a week), comes with LTE so I can skip a few bucks on service plans LOL.
HankLloydRight
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I wonder if those of us with the prepaid service plan can get the LTE hardware as part of our once-promised "hardware upgrades"???
Am I the only one still feeling surreal about the CEO of a $40Bn company just casually replying to "us" on twitter? Who does that? This is so cool...
