What are you Aussies getting for cellular speeds in your cars?

[Matt_NZ]

If you go to Fast.com in the browser in your car, what speed are you getting?

Since Tesla NZ seems to be a subsidy of Tesla Australia, our cars get Telstra SIMs that roam on our NZ carriers. It seems the connection has a custom APN as visiting the likes of Netflix shows the Australian library and NZ streaming services are geoblocked due to appearing to be traffic from Australia. Over the last few months though, it seems the capacity on this APN is bottlenecked and most cars in NZ can only get around 600kbps. This is starting to impact Spotify streaming and even connecting to the car via the app when it doesn't have a Wifi connection.

I assume cars in Australia use the same APN so I was wondering what speeds you guys are seeing?

 

[ausevdriver]

I haven't tried it for a little while, but generally it will match a Telstra 4G phone in the same place.

So I've seen 50+Mbps. Definitely haven't noticed any issues with spotify/netflix/kayo/youtube etc.

 

[Ozdw]

If you go to Fast.com in the browser in your car, what speed are you getting?

Since Tesla NZ seems to be a subsidy of Tesla Australia, our cars get Telstra SIMs that roam on our NZ carriers. It seems the connection has a custom APN as visiting the likes of Netflix shows the Australian library and NZ streaming services are geoblocked due to appearing to be traffic from Australia. Over the last few months though, it seems the capacity on this APN is bottlenecked and most cars in NZ can only get around 600kbps. This is starting to impact Spotify streaming and even connecting to the car via the app when it doesn't have a Wifi connection.

I assume cars in Australia use the same APN so I was wondering what speeds you guys are seeing?

In rural Australia, where our speed is 4G and constrained by the backhaul, I get 34mbps down and 24mbps up. Will be interesting to see what people in a capital city get.

 

[Matt_NZ]

Ugh, I'm jealous of those speeds!

I wish Tesla would pick a local carrier for NZ cars rather than using Telstra in a roaming capacity

 

[alliwantisaY]

In rural Australia, where our speed is 4G and constrained by the backhaul, I get 34mbps down and 24mbps up. Will be interesting to see what people in a capital city get.

Wow that's pretty good. I wasn't expecting anything like that. I can't even get those speeds on my Fixed Wireless Rural NBN system

 

[Ozdw]

Wow that's pretty good. I wasn't expecting anything like that. I can't even get those speeds on my Fixed Wireless Rural NBN system

You need Starlink. How about 250mbps down. Nearly every house here has a Starlink antenna.

 

[Novatec]

You need Starlink. How about 250mbps down. Nearly every house here has a Starlink antenna.

Agreed, we're in Melbourne and also have Starlink - its better than Big City NBN as well as Rural NBN.

 

[Zoltrix77]

Agreed, we're in Melbourne and also have Starlink - its better than Big City NBN as well as Rural NBN.

Except for the insane 100w operating power usage.

 

[leonk]

Agreed, we're in Melbourne and also have Starlink - its better than Big City NBN as well as Rural NBN.

If you're in Melbourne you're better off on 5G home broadband. I regularly get 400+mbps.

 

[Tristan888]

If you're in Melbourne you're better off on 5G home broadband. I regularly get 400+mbps.

Yeah we disconnected NBN at home too, which was $120pm for 100mbps, connection would drop out at least once per day usually when something important was going on. Now on an $99 per month Optus 5g uncapped speed, I’ve seen it go as high as 600 mbps for short periods.

 

[Tristan888]

If you go to Fast.com in the browser in your car, what speed are you getting?

Since Tesla NZ seems to be a subsidy of Tesla Australia, our cars get Telstra SIMs that roam on our NZ carriers. It seems the connection has a custom APN as visiting the likes of Netflix shows the Australian library and NZ streaming services are geoblocked due to appearing to be traffic from Australia. Over the last few months though, it seems the capacity on this APN is bottlenecked and most cars in NZ can only get around 600kbps. This is starting to impact Spotify streaming and even connecting to the car via the app when it doesn't have a Wifi connection.

I assume cars in Australia use the same APN so I was wondering what speeds you guys are seeing?

It’s slow in my car in Melbourne as well, regularly Spotify and Apple Music are buffering, then I connect the car wifi to my phone (5g) hotspot and it works fine.

BYD are using Telstra as well, we also have an Atto3 and never have any issues with spotify in that.