SSD420
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AM? I heard my new MX doesn't even have AM on it.. Anyone know if there's truth to this?
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I've heard that about the X but I have an S but don't worry the only thing your missing is static. TuneIn works great!
SSD420
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I listen to local news and sports on AM. Tunein will help me achieve that? I need to be able to listen to my Toronto Maple Laffs err Leafs
Install the free version of TuneIn on your computer or phone (create your own account). Do searches for the radio stations you like and the sports teams you want. Once you find them save them as favorites (or "follow" them) and it will carry over to your car if you sign in using your own ID and password. TuneIn is super clear and you can select high bandwidth for even better sound. I think you'll like it.I listen to local news and sports on AM. Tunein will help me achieve that? I need to be able to listen to my Toronto Maple Laffs err Leafs
SSD420
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HankLloydRight
No Roads
As someone who had installed a home-made 3g hotspot in his car about 10 years ago using a Sierra Wireless 3g PC-CARD in a Phoebus 3G Wifi router, (and later replaced that with a much smaller Cradlepoint 3g-wifi router) these days I really don't see the need for car-as-wifi-hotspot anymore with LTE on almost every device, and personal hotspots offered from most cell phone carriers.
My iPhone has long since replaced the Cradlepoint since the jailbreaking days and an app called MyWi. Now the LTE hotspot is just included in my AT&T plan and works great.. and for Mac devices (Macbook Air, iPad), I use Bluetooth instead of wifi for internet sharing as it uses less bandwidth and doesn't broadcast an SSID.
So I just don't see "car-as-hotspot" such a big deal anymore.
p.s. For sale: Phoebus and Cradlepoint cellular wifi hotspots.
As someone who had installed a home-made 3g hotspot in his car about 10 years ago using a Sierra Wireless 3g PC-CARD in a Phoebus 3G Wifi router, (and later replaced that with a much smaller Cradlepoint 3g-wifi router) these days I really don't see the need for car-as-wifi-hotspot anymore with LTE on almost every device, and personal hotspots offered from most cell phone carriers.
My iPhone has long since replaced the Cradlepoint since the jailbreaking days and an app called MyWi. Now the LTE hotspot is just included in my AT&T plan and works great.. and for Mac devices (Macbook Air, iPad), I use Bluetooth instead of wifi for internet sharing as it uses less bandwidth and doesn't broadcast an SSID.
So I just don't see "car-as-hotspot" such a big deal anymore.
p.s. For sale: Phoebus and Cradlepoint cellular wifi hotspots.
As someone who has never needed to use a mobile hotspot (Verizon unlimited since the 3g days), I also fail to see the attraction. Perhaps this would help supplement families that have lower tier shared data plans. It could avoid overages, etc as the kids stream untold amounts of crap during a road trip.
Bluetooth isn't going to get a device to the Internet. That's why it would be great if passengers could connect to the AT&T cell network that's in the car already. I'd agree that that is a net cost increase to Tesla due to the added bandwidth though.As someone who had installed a home-made 3g hotspot in his car about 10 years ago using a Sierra Wireless 3g PC-CARD in a Phoebus 3G Wifi router, (and later replaced that with a much smaller Cradlepoint 3g-wifi router) these days I really don't see the need for car-as-wifi-hotspot anymore with LTE on almost every device, and personal hotspots offered from most cell phone carriers.
My iPhone has long since replaced the Cradlepoint since the jailbreaking days and an app called MyWi. Now the LTE hotspot is just included in my AT&T plan and works great.. and for Mac devices (Macbook Air, iPad), I use Bluetooth instead of wifi for internet sharing as it uses less bandwidth and doesn't broadcast an SSID.
So I just don't see "car-as-hotspot" such a big deal anymore.
p.s. For sale: Phoebus and Cradlepoint cellular wifi hotspots.
HankLloydRight
No Roads
Yes for Apple devices you can use Bluetooth for Internet connectivity instead of power sucking wifi.
HankLloydRight
No Roads
My point is, why depend on the car for an Internet connection when almost every cell phone already has LTE and personal hotspot functions?
Let me just make sure I'm following. You're saying I can turn off cell and wifi on my iPhone and connect to the Internet via Bluetooth in my car right?
Okay, I think I understand. My point was to save data charges by connecting to the car as a hotspot, I already know the device will connect via cell to the Internet and Bluetooth isn't needed at that point.
HankLloydRight
No Roads
Interesting topic. It sounds like the Nav map redraws are significantly faster with the LTE upgrade. Can someone please advise me whether the upgrade would also reduce the occurrences of the Google maps sometimes not drawing at all after I start my old model S? The red arrow moves in that case but the map doesn't appear until I reboot the screen.
Thanks!
Thanks!
HankLloydRight
No Roads
In my experience with both 3G and LTE in the Model S, the in-car connection just doesn't seem up to par with LTE mobile phones on the same network, so adding more bandwidth sinks on the car network would/could seriously affect the in-car applications from working properly.
My whole premise is that an in-car hotspot is no longer really a needed feature since there are better, more stable, alternatives.
That's true and i
I hadn't considered the car being affected by my selfish personal bandwidth hogging. I was only considering my selfish desire to save a few bucks on my own data consumption. Good points!
HankLloydRight
No Roads
Also, just looking into the near future, bandwidth is going to become so cheap, it's almost free. I already have a cheap 3GB plan on AT&T which is automatically doubled to 6GB... I'm online all the time and I barely use 1GB or sometimes 2GB when I'm tethering my notebook from a hotel. Now I don't really stream movies or spotify, but I do do a ton of web and email activities.
Now if you had a brood of kids in the car, each doing movies and music, I can see how burning through 10GB/month might be an issue. But is that the exception, or the rule?
Now if you had a brood of kids in the car, each doing movies and music, I can see how burning through 10GB/month might be an issue. But is that the exception, or the rule?
The Dodge Durango loaner that Tesla has me in has a hot spot feature. Seems to be pretty common these days.
mikegre
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I bought a wifi hotspot ($50 to $100) and added it to my ATT plan for an extra $10 a month. I just have it plugged it and velcroed in my Tesla. Easy.
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