Car stick

[Vinci]

I have a Huawei dongle in the van, £19 for a 4g EE card 6gb for 3 months, works very well.

 

[Caulkhead]

I have a Huawei dongle in the van, £19 for a 4g EE card 6gb for 3 months, works very well.

Me too I have even used it travelling around New Zealand in a van as well, seriously good kit

 

[Insert Coin]

The other bonus for me is it free’s up my only factory usb socket, so I can use CarPlay again.

 

[chriscroft]

I got a Carstick a few weeks back, I also got a Virgin sim only deal 100gb a month for £20! (no longer available I don't think).

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.

So reading up on the Carstick and it looks like it's a 3g modem (UMTS?), there's a 4g (LTE?) version, but firstly I don't know if the 4g stick works in a T6 and secondly it's quite expensive (£125+).

I finally decided to go down this route instead - https://goo.gl/aCLxqw

So using the same sim card in the same van in the same spot I've got this difference in speed -
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I've tried various servers, always the same speed results, crap on Carstick and great on the Huawei.

The Discover Media happily connects to the Huawei modem, seems to be getting all the correct traffic updates, CarPlay is streaming music etc.

Moral of the story appears to be the CarStick is crap and to avoid.

I've got a carsick, but your solution looks soooo much better

 

[Dannyb6467]

Really? What doesn't work for you? I use it quite often and never had a problem (6S on Vodafone)

Mine is on EE and is brilliant. No use for a carstick??

 

[Insert Coin]

I've got a carsick, but your solution looks soooo much better

I used this low profile 12v socket -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B071P6R1LM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0734K52BH/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

You can then close the cubby hole and keep it all out of sight.

 

[Loz]

Is that some kind of missile launching button for annoying drivers?

 

[Insert Coin]

Brilliant