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Skoda 000051409F Surfstick Carstick LTE Connect, only for Amundsen navigation system (Gen. 2)

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Yes, Car-Net Guide and Inform (Basic) comes as standard equipment on my model. I did not want App-Connect which you appear to have. You state that you connect your iPhone to the Infotainment system using a USB cable, but then you refer subsequently to using only Apple CarPlay, Siri, Apple Maps, etc.. Can you connect via USB cable and use the Car-Net Guide and Inform services? As implied in my original post, this way of connecting is not mentioned in my Infotainment manual. This is much safer as I can glance at the TomTom whilst keeping the road ahead within my field of vision.

Possibly the DNS may use the Internet connection (*) to update traffic en route. It also uses traffic info via the radio system. The Discover Media happily connects to the Huawei modem, seems to be getting all the correct traffic updates, CarPlay is streaming music etc. I agree does seem silly to sell the car as having a 'wifi hotspot' when you end up using your phone or a dongle to make it functional!Starting to think it's only configurable via the discover media head unit which means I've wasted 100quid Apple maps works well as an alternative to the DNS on board satnav. Great with Siri voice control, as is the iPhone dialler.

Reliable 3G is enough, the work I do doesn't require vast bandwidth just a constant connection as it's over a VPN. Anything that increases the range of places I can work is a godsend.Internet connection - Personal Hotspot - wrong assumption. When set up the phone acts as a mobile wi-if router and can share its internet connection with any wi-if device, of which one is the DNS and therefore car-net. You state "Personal hotspot on and linked to car.". I'm sorry but I don't understand this. I am assuming that you have not configured your iPhone as a WiFi hotspot and that the Infotainment system does not connect as a WLAN client. So what is a "personal hotspot" in relation to an iPhone? I've been very impressed with the built in nav system compared to Google maps on Android auto. It seems better at not sending you down ridiculously small roads for example. I don't have an apple phone so can't comment on the Apple equivalent. I also have managed to connect the Infotainment system in my car to the WiFi hotspot of my home router. No problem there.

Problems so far very few, found for some reason the USB cable was critical as connection to iPhone 5 occasionally crashed with a cheaper quality cable which charged fine, worked with data to laptop but was iffy with car-net. Plugging it in with hotspot enabled then forces it to connect and it continues to work after unplugging.No - Smartphone discussion not off topic in my opinion. You said you were trying to decide which one to buy, hence my observations from personal experience. Your following discussion about embracing technology may be drifting off topic however....! Siri works very well, activated by voice dial button on steering wheel using the car microphone. Functions better than my previous Golf which had voice control. Daft thing is, parked in the drive, it links almost immediately with my home WiFi enabling me to upload destinations input to the app. The nuisance is, without a reliable data connection the traffic updates don’t work. The other features of Skoda Connected I can happily live without. Either a connection via wifi hotspot take a reasonable amount of time to connect, but if you leave it and then open Skodaconnect, it will work. I've got my carnet code - and I've actually paid for another year because it was going to run out in November.

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