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It looks like I have LTE enabled
- Thread starter Korben
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The whole touch screen/MCU needs to be replaced to enable LTE? In that case it will be quite expensive retrofit.
mspohr
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Tesla makes about 20 changes a week. You benefited from the changes the week yours was built but miss all subsequent changes.
Enjoy your car. It's wonderful now and will be far into the future. It's more advanced than anything else that will be on the road for years to come.
beeeerock
Active Member
My car fell off the cellular network for a couple of days (3G). No Slacker, no web, but the GPS map tiles continued to load as I roamed around town.
When I called the service guys to see if there was something I could do, the conversation touched on cached information and the inference I took was that the SD card is being used as a cheap solid state drive for swap/cache space. That was NOT stated explicitly to me, it's just what I inferred, so my comment shouldn't be used to start anything!
If it makes you feel better, I missed it by two days. I knew I should have held off ordering!
Honestly, if there was just a way to change the indicator from 3g to LTE, I would be happy. I am ridiculous like that.
mspohr
Well-Known Member
So... if you were on a ride on the International Space Station you would perseverate about the food rather than enjoy the experience?
PhinFL
Member
Just picked up my S85D today. I am happy to report that the car came with LTE already enabled. According to my DS, mine was only the third car he has delivered with it.
vdiv
Chief Grump
johnmclarren
New Member
Picked my 70D up yesterday and has LTE enabled. I had my run through of the car in the floor model as mine was still being detailed, and when I got into my Model S I didn't notice until I had left so I was not able to ask my DS about it.
PhinFL
Member
Congrats Phin!
The third car delivered with LTE, out of four total?!
Thanks vdiv. Funny. :tongue:
Dakkor
Member
Got my car 2 days ago in Canada. No LTE. Anyone in Canada got a LTE car??? Wonder if it's just that we don't have LTE yet here since we are roaming data from the US...
Lex
Member
Same here Dakkor. I don't believe there has been an LTE connection reported in Canada yet ??? Thread is 34 pages now lol it seemed to me that mine was built a couple of days on the LTE side so I hold out hope for the possibility that our radios are LTE. Might have to visit the US to see what happens
My car (July 2013 build) is going in for its annual service--I asked about the LTE retrofit and my SvC said they had gotten any communications on if a retrofit would be made available or what it might cost.
just picked up my car at the factory the other day. I have LTE. I was told it is luck of the draw at this point. They didn't intend to launch it yet even though the hardware is in place. It was by accident that some vehicles have it turned on. If it is on, they are leaving it on. Not sure I believe that story. Just as likely we are beta testers for the LTE and wanted to limit the numbers early on. Either way it was a nice surprise.
travwill
Active Member
Cool. That seems odd though as all of us taking recent delivery seem to have it, built in June+ for sure. I have it but I mean it doesn't seem to perform much faster than the 3G versions I test drove - still tiny bit of buffer time to time, maps kind of draw in slow, but overall everything is more than reasonably fast. Hard to tell. Could come in handy for future improvements or just having an additional option for better coverage in some areas...
My car fell off the cellular network for a couple of days (3G). No Slacker, no web, but the GPS map tiles continued to load as I roamed around town.
When I called the service guys to see if there was something I could do, the conversation touched on cached information and the inference I took was that the SD card is being used as a cheap solid state drive for swap/cache space. That was NOT stated explicitly to me, it's just what I inferred, so my comment shouldn't be used to start anything!
That's a very expensive solution for storage. A flash capsule on the board is much much cheaper...
The difference between native 3G and LTE is very noticeable, in my opinion. As I mentioned upthread, though, the bigger win for me was the coverage. Map tiles and songs load more quickly (probably about 1.5-2x the speed), but where I experienced dead spots before, I no longer have them.
So, are you going to keep on teasing or reveal how you have "native LTE" in Model S VIN S1049?
