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

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Any way I think i've managed to get it working, so thought i'd post to share with anyone else on EE. There was some uncertainty about whether you can tether the Virgin sim, but I've had 3 devices at once connected to it and had no connection issues, but it is painfully slow for browsing and streaming is almost impossible. Connecting to an EE iPhone over wifi hotspot is particularly slow (I've found it unreliable on everything, regualrly having to turn the hotspot on/off/on to make a connection actually access the interent). I'm driving the vRS to work tomorrow so I'll carry on experimenting to try and confirm these methods. As a whole the only part of Car-Net I find useful (excluding in my case the very much used CarPlay) is the upload of destinations to the DNS satnav from the comfort of an armchair.

SD Card music - my car has the Dynaudio speakers - which sound outstanding to me. I wanted to give them something high quality as a source. CDs sound incredible, but so do does high-quality digital music files from the SD card. This lives in Slot 1 now, and has all my favourite music on it. I know most people now probably don't have a digital music collection like this, but I still do, so might as well use it. To my ears, it sounds better than either bluetooth-based audio, or my wired Android Auto phone using high quality Spotify streaming. Its also very easy to get to the album or artist you want, or just to shuffle the whole thing.Have you got a Columbus or Amundsen head unit? My Amundsen doesn’t have a globe, but a standard Wi-fi fan type symbol instead. Are you saying you can tether it via USB, or do you mean connect to the personal hotspot whilst it’s plugged into CarPlay?

If you don't have the discovery nav you can still just use the mini wi-fi router to create a network without having to go through the head unit.

I have the comfort dash, so I leave it plugged into the USB slot in the glove box and every time I start the van it connects to the discovery nav head unit and creates a wi-fi network in the van. The router also has a little slot for a mini SD card, so you can still use the USB port for storage of music or photos etc. I am still not sure whether your iPhone is configured as a mobile WiFi router AND is also connected to the Infotainment system by USB cable – that is, you use both types of connection. As a side note I mentioned that when i disabled hot spot on the phone while it was connect via CarPlay I retained a white globe icon (its red when i have no connction) and had access to Skodaconnect. so I guess carplay also tethers it? 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? You can tether it when you plug it in to the USB port (with hotspot on and discoverable) and it will connect and continue working after you unplug. I think tethering via cable will also work as at some point yesterday, the globe was white but it didn't say WLAN next to it, and it still worked (this was with hotspotting turned off, because I was also using car play to try and get the OneSkoda app working, but more of that on a different thread...).

I also use the weconnect app on my phone to send locations to the car before a new journey. Then when you get into the car it pops up on the screen with the new destination and you just tap to go there.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. If using streaming services occasional dropouts due to signal loss are avoided by saving playlists to the phone. It is really getting off topic to discuss the relative merits of the iPhone and Android phones. I’ve been a Luddite for many years and have refused to buy a smart phone. However, my elder daughter has an Android and is very pleased with it, and my younger daughter has an iPhone and is equally pleased with it. And, having watched them use various useful apps on their phones, I’ve been persuaded to buy a smart phone. The Discover Media happily connects to the Huawei modem, seems to be getting all the correct traffic updates, CarPlay is streaming music etc. Possibly the DNS may use the Internet connection (*) to update traffic en route. It also uses traffic info via the radio system.