spotdog14
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Sync is not allowed to connect to the in car wifi.
Sync 3 WiFi Hotspot Download Speed Limitation?
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Sync is not allowed to connect to the in car wifi.
Did I say sync connects to the in car wifi? Or are you just feeling like correcting people today?
Rick Anjel
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I Agree that there really is no reason to keep it, its very slow! The reason to have it, is for the kids to stream and with the slow speeds that it offers its not capable (I have 3 kids). Once my trial period ends im not renewing.... My Iphone is 5 times faster and what I do is turn on my phones hot spot for the kids Ipads, and they all stream fine....
spotdog14
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I'm pretty sure that is exactly what you said chief.
I'm so happy you've put me on the straight and narrow, captain.
Doesn't change the fact that the vehicle burnt 3GB of the data in the free hotspot trial before I ever had a device connected to it.
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Aspen03
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But it does...this is how cellular devices have updated for years. Only somewhat recently they started pushing updates to wifi only and that's out of selfishness of not bogging the network down with terabytes of system updates when a new one is rolled out to millions of devices. They can then put the burden on you now that they tend to be fairly sizeable.
In a closed system that has a single means of connectivity where else should it get data? The hotspot isnt smart enough to distinguish the data type, you'll likely dont want it to be either unless you like hotspots that catalog everything you do and mine that data for whomever. You wouldnt be happy if you had to hook to your phone to update either and the hotspot cant hook to home router so you're just stuck. If you're using a paid hotspot to offset phone data usage the investment us more than likely in the wrong place. I suggest looking at an upgraded phone plan. I've seen few instances where it makes sense.
Grand scheme of things Ford/ATT are just letting you sample this tech, they fully expect you to pay for it and do not care. After all it is an $80k truck.
In a closed system that has a single means of connectivity where else should it get data? The hotspot isnt smart enough to distinguish the data type, you'll likely dont want it to be either unless you like hotspots that catalog everything you do and mine that data for whomever. You wouldnt be happy if you had to hook to your phone to update either and the hotspot cant hook to home router so you're just stuck. If you're using a paid hotspot to offset phone data usage the investment us more than likely in the wrong place. I suggest looking at an upgraded phone plan. I've seen few instances where it makes sense.
Grand scheme of things Ford/ATT are just letting you sample this tech, they fully expect you to pay for it and do not care. After all it is an $80k truck.
