superswiss

Correct, 200kb gives you maybe two tiles. I'm using about 100MB/month if I don't leave my immediate area, so that's ~3MB every day. On average I drive about 1 hour every day. I have Google Earth on the display at all times pretty much. If I throw in a road trip during one month the data usage easily goes up to around 500MB.

Shinchan

The data connection definitly is there. I got the Audi connect to work. Pull up weather, local news... Until I turn off the car for 30 min. Then it stop working.... but later on during the day, it magic work again...

dannyt74

I noticed superswiss wrote "I haven't used T-Mobile for quite a while. I'm using AT&T since my telephone module got upgraded and I noticed the other day that at least AT&T is using a dedicated Audi APN."

Can you clarify? Were you able to actually have a dealer or yourself switch out the old T-Mobile radio (3G) for a new AT&T radio (phone module) so you can get the faster 4G/LTE service? And everything works?

dreadlocks

No, he got the updated TMobile radio from ~2014, its still 3G but the new radio supports AT&T bands so you can use an AT&T SIM or a T-Mobile SIM..

dannyt74

got it. No way to get 4G in a 2014 Q7 then?

And so my 2014 q7 should at least automatically recognize and work with an AT&T SIM? Will my 3G be any faster since I’m still limited to 3G? I’ve seen mixed results some saying At&T’s SIM will even only connect at 2G. I guess I can try it later.

thanks for the quick reply!

dreadlocks

turn your phone into hotspot mode heh, but no.. and the 3G service and google services only got like a year left before they gonna stop working so dont sweat it.. it wont be any faster on AT&T, but it should work on AT&T service if you have a sim card w/data plan.. AudiConnect support wont help you with anything but you can still set it all up, just wont manage the data subscription through audiconnect.

dannyt74

I've been using it in the official way for a year... They just forced is to go month to month so assuming that's because they will eventually announce the service is ending.

I wonder if the online destination Google service will still work? Or at least the hotspot probably should as it has nothing to do with custom code embedded in the vehicle simply to share the data.

A cheap tablet data plan would be handier than always having to turn on phone hotspot, using that data plan, etc in my scenario... Basically convenience...

dreadlocks

If your on Android: https://android.stackexchange.com/qu...uetooth-source

Set your HotSpot up w/same name and credentials as at home, then all the kids tablets connect to the LTE when on the road and I dont need built in WiFi or a bunch of plans for the kiddos who dont need em.

dannyt74

Cool tip. That would kind of do the trick. Sadly we're on iPhones... Had Android to start (having switched from Windows mobile 10) but found the amount of tweaking needed to get things working as desired frustrating... Rooting, Custom ROMs, etc. although obviously can be useful... like in that scenario...

On iPhone you can essentially leave the hotspot set to on all the time but in reality even when you are not connected to WiFi you'd need to go toggle it to get it working as I use it all the time in my 2010 A5 Cabrio with no phone module...

dreadlocks

yeah thats why I buy pixels now, Virgin Android, OTA Updates.. no need to root, flash etc.. cameras are better than iPhones too..

Looks like IOS wont allow this functionality in an App w/out Jailbreaking it, bummer..