Other than for big OTA update downloads, are there any other reasons to connect your car to home Wi-Fi? I'm thinking about permanently disconnecting from my home network.
Need for home Wi-Fi?
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Nope. Many have.
Turned WiFi off on mine a while back, no ill effects that I can see.
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Mainly to prevent battery draining, though I’m sure there are other reasons.
For me, less daily phantom drain (mine was greater than 2% and now less than 1% as it was uploading a lot of data through the WiFi - for what, I don't know) and faster connectivity at start from home (no more audio and navigation connectivity delay when leaving range and switching from WiFi to car connection).
The car does a bad job of switching from WiFi to cell data, so that if you are listening to a streaming music source as you leave home, the music always stops for a while a minute into the drive. Not using home WiFi avoids this problem.
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Sometimes. I don't seem to have this problem at all, so I leave wifi on. I would guess it has to do both with what your cell service is like in your area as well as what wifi equipment / settings you use.
