snagitseven

My avg usage over 18 months is about 250-275MB. It really comes down to how much you use the Google Earth map overlay outside of your local area cache (a real data hog) and how often you use the other services, i.e. weather, news, Street View, etc. For those who don't use AC for more than the occasional Google search and don't wander out of a 20 mile radius or so with Google Earth, one of the pay-for-use options would be the way to go.

I'm one of those that really enjoys the tech and uses it regularly on day trips out of my area. I paid the $450 and like that I don't have to worry about usage or even think about it for three years (incl the trial period). I'm sure there are some months where the $15 effective cost is higher than my usage but overall, at least for me, it's evened out (and I very rarely use the in car wifi).

feralc

same thing happened to me but I waited and eventually somebody answered the call, I told the guy I wanted to get a phone number and he asked for my zip code, the last 4 digits of my sim and the puk code.
(He told me I could have done it through their website and I believe that is the case here https://account.lycamobile.us/DNA.aspx?lang=EN)

Anyways he gave me a number with my area code, and with that number I registered in lycamobile.us (I tried from the iphone and never worked I had to do it from a pc, maybe that is what he said about the imac, maybe the website uses flash, which idevices cannot open)
After that I put 10 dollars of credit, the APN settings I already said below in the MMI settings AND.....
lets' see how for long the 10 dollars last.

feralc

sorry for answering in two different posts, but you are obviously CONFUSED
You DO NOT put neither your number nor password nor anything in the MMI, that is for you to go into lycamobile website and recharge, check your balance etc.
What you put in the MMI is the APN settings, go to phone, and then settings, I believe is connection settings and there you put this info
APN data.lycamobile.com
Username lmus
Password plus

hit back and the information is stored in your MMI.

feralc

What are you using to connect? audi connect or one of the prepaids?
because for you the lycamobile option would be great, 94mb at 6 cents $5.64 in 7 months.
PERFECT

Maverick61

I started using Truphone a month and a half ago. It has been fine. only thing was when I started using truphone, I lost all my cached maps from my first 6 months t-mobile trial when I had my car on for service and they did the 715 MMI update. Not the fault of truphone - it was the MMI update that wiped the cache out. So I did get hit with some heavy initial usage - like 25 or 30MB as I downloaded a lot on near full zoom. But very little since then as I don't typically go outside my cached area that often

Lycamobile would even have been cheaper but did not know about them

dicktahoe

I hate to keep COMPLAINING. However this is sooooo frustrating.
I take out the SIM card that came with my Audi, and insert the Lyca SIM card that has now been registered and $10 added to my account. I do as you suggested, and my MMI Locks up. AMAZING!. If I leave my orginal SIM installed, I can enter APN, etc. and it get's stored. However, when I put in my Lyca SIM and start entering APN, my MMI locks up, I can't go back, I can't select NAV or any other function, it's just totally locked, and I don't know what to do?

feralc

Click tel then settings and then turn off data module and then yes Wait a while and turn it back on That should reset the MMI, the system in the car is not the fastest and needs a reset once In a while Some problem I keep encountering is that when I restart the car it doesn't connect automatically and weirdly enough changed my APN settings to Vodafone ones I took the sim out reinserted it and it worked and the lycamobile APN settings were there again Also I am confused if roaming should be enabled or not, I live near Mexico and I do not know if they are considering USA as "home" and I will be roaming (at a higher rate) if I use it near the border OR the USA is roaming too?
And the reason I am asking if roaming should be enabled or not is because if you do online status overview of the MMI the Tmobile shows a triangle that I believe means it is roaming, but I do not have roaming enabled (so I have no idea haha)

dicktahoe

feralc
You have been such great help. I'll go try that. I don't know how I would ever have known the APN to use, the User name Imus or the password plus, if you had not listed them--I guess all this APN, Name and password is the same for everyone is that correct?

feralc

Glad to help
APN settings are the same for everyone

dicktahoe

When I go to TEL then Settings, I don't see any place where I can "turn off the data module". When I put my original Audi SIM card in the MMI operates normally and when I check the connection, all the APN, User Name and password are there. When I remove the Audi SIM card, and put in the Lycamobile one, and look at the data fields, they're empty. When I start trying to enter the data, within one of two letters the whole MMI freezes--It freezes so much I can't even use the button to close the display. I'm beginning to think maybe I have a bad SIM. I've tried every combination I can think of an still nothing works. I don't think signal strength has anything to do with this, but at my home I only have 2G (no connection, just signal strength). I even drove up the mountain where I got 3G signal and still it behaves the same way. Very confusing, very frustrating and it shouldn't be this HARD.