Apartment wifi doesn’t reach my car, and my phone plan’s hotspot is embarrassingly shit. Anyone have a spot they use?

For those without a tesla: looking for places with guest/free wifi that reaches the street or the parking lot. Doesn’t work if the network has a redirect that you have to accept after connecting (like McDonalds wifi for example) but passwords are fine.

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whalebonerz t1_jec87t6 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:17 PM

How is it not starlink enabled? Seems like a no-brainer on Musk's part.

wutangoo OP t1_jecbem7 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:40 PM

Only “critical updates” are available over the cars default connection. If it’s not critical, the update stays pending until you connect to wifi or it gets baked in to the next critical update. Weird system.

JohnPaulSatire t1_jecea9w wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:01 AM

There’s your problem.

LeftVegetable8 t1_jecrjz2 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:41 AM

This isn’t the answer you’re looking for but for the past couple of updates I used my phone’s hotspot while charging my car at a supercharger.

imaluckyduckie t1_jecz90u wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:42 AM

Good luck. Tesla's Wifi connection protocol is really a mess. They use "X-" HTML headers, which most Wifi hotspots will filter out. Even the public Wifi hotspots.