[Importguy]

I have been without for most of last month. Just waiting for the email with the discount offer to see if I will get it or not. I really just want it so that I can lock the door remotely. Thats all I ever use it for. Oh, and checking to see how much charge I have left while charging.

I dont park in the garage, too many toys in the two garages. So the matte car stays outside. Have rarely used the remote start/climate. Mainly because I dont have a set time to leave. So I may remember to turn on the remote climate/start. But by the time I get to the car, its been like 1.5-2 hours and the car is off.

I have been without for most of last month. Just waiting for the email with the discount offer to see if I will get it or not. I really just want it so that I can lock the door remotely. Thats all I ever use it for. Oh, and checking to see how much charge I have left while charging.

I dont park in the garage, too many toys in the two garages. So the matte car stays outside. Have rarely used the remote start/climate. Mainly because I dont have a set time to leave. So I may remember to turn on the remote climate/start. But by the time I get to the car, its been like 1.5-2 hours and the car is off.

Just waiting for the email with the discount offer
So did Kia ever come through with a discounted subscription?

 

[avh]

Just waiting for the email with the discount offer
So did Kia ever come through with a discounted subscription?

They have not emailed me any offer, subscription expired a month ago.

 

[mark_1922]

Yes this product as a service model has gotten out of hand. All these companies have found they can make way more in the long term by adding these subscriptions and charging a nominal rate. I expect they hope people will sign up and forget about it while they rake in the cash for years.

I have a 2023 Sportage SXP and I have subscribed to the Ultimate Plan so I have a vehicle hotspot like I did on my Audi. It does connect but it continually shuts off and to get it back on you have to pull off the road to have time to navigate through 4 screens to turn it back on again only to have it turn off again after a few minutes. I'm angry that I was deceived into thinking I was paying for an actual hotspot. Continually turning off makes it functionally unusable for me. I've asked Kia to change this in a future software update. If they don't fix it, I have decided to cancel the subscription and purchase an actual functioning hot spot. This was the main reason I paid extra for the SXP model but it was money wasted on a false promise. Not happy!!!

 

[jtespi]

I have a 2023 Sportage SXP and I have subscribed to the Ultimate Plan so I have a vehicle hotspot like I did on my Audi.

In the EV6, the hotspot subscription is totally separate from the Kia Connect Ultimate plan. We have to subscribe to the hotspot for $20/month directly through Verizon.

 

[xenon2070]

I recently got Kia EV6 and during enabling the hotspot, I did not see anything about fees.

Anyway, is it feasible to get the hotspot using xfinity or the other methods? $20/m seems to be a bit high. The only benefit of the hotspot might be checking the dashcam in a real-time basis. Do we see any other benefit that can be worth of $20/m?

PS: In my Niro EV 2020, I was mainly counting on my mobile internet.

 

[avh]

I recently got Kia EV6 and during enabling the hotspot, I did not see anything about fees.

Anyway, is it feasible to get the hotspot using xfinity or the other methods? $20/m seems to be a bit high. The only benefit of the hotspot might be checking the dashcam in a real-time basis. Do we see any other benefit that can be worth of $20/m?

PS: In my Niro EV 2020, I was mainly counting on my mobile internet.

You get 3 months free with the car. The Wifi turns off with the car and has to be enabled every time you start the car. The car only work with Verizon I believe. I gave up and just use my phone wifi when my kid wants to browse the internet.

 

[jtespi]

The Wifi turns off with the car and has to be enabled every time you start the car.

Wow, I didn't know that you needed to re-enable hotspot every single time you drive. That seems so inconvenient that it doesn't just stay on between power cycles. I let the free trial lapse since I already have Verizon cell service with my phone so I can't test the car's hotspot.

Needing to remember every time to turn the hotspot on seems like a major drawback, especially if you have connected devices like dashcams.

 

[xenon2070]

So, effectively it cannot be used for real-time dashcam monitoring. It was the only reason that I was relying on its hotsopt. My personal mobile's hotspot seems to be more reliable than Kia's hotspot.

If somebody really needs a hotspot at all the time, using a separate mobile inside the car might be an option (it is not cheap and it risks breaking in the car, since the thieves are also smart and they can identify electronics inside the car, even if you hide them).

 

[mark_1922]

In the EV6, the hotspot subscription is totally separate from the Kia Connect Ultimate plan. We have to subscribe to the hotspot for $20/month directly through Verizon.

I believe this is the case with all Kia vehicles that have a "hot spot" versus simply Kia Connect. I that it had an adjustable "sleep timer" and that the sim was unlocked so you change to whatever carrier and speed you wanted to pay for. It would need to be a second modem for the hot spot as Kia Connect needs to work though a carrier network that has been configured for the connect service. I don't think you could do this with an "unlocked" sim card.