Hi all

 

I collected my 6 month old Octavia VRS combi this morning and have been playing with all the new toys. I have been trying to connect a iPad to test the wifi hotspot, which I'm led to believe my car has, when connected to my phone. Can I find it? Er..no. I must be missing something. I can find it in the Amundsen infotainment system menus, and the handbook is vague at best. Nothing shows up on a wifi search other than my pre existing personal hotspot. Does anybody have any idea how to activate this?

 

Cheers 

Edited 30 September, 20169 yr by Ferrett2055

Does the Amundsen have WiFI capability? I know the Columbus (in the Superb) but that it's an option.

 

Personally I don't get the functionality - if you are creating a WiFi hotspot for the car, to then connect an iPad to, why not just connect the iPad to the phone?

According to the Latest Octavia Brouchure the Vrs has a HiFi Hot spot. ( Admunsun Sat/nav Radio )

 

My 230, hopefully collecting next week should have it but the OP's Vrs is 6 months old, maybe it wasn't available then but is now

 

 

 

https://tools.skoda.co.uk/content/brochure/brochure_octavia.pdf

 

Brochure is dated 07/16

Edited 30 September, 20169 yr by Auric Goldfinger

According to the Latest Octavia Brouchure the Vrs has a HiFi Hot spot. ( Admunsun Sat/nav Radio )

 

My 230, hopefully collecting next week should have it but the OP's Vrs is 6 months old, maybe it wasn't available then but is now

 

 

 

https://tools.skoda.co.uk/content/brochure/brochure_octavia.pdf

 

Brochure is dated 07/16

 

Perhaps thats it. not to worry, and yes I could just connect to the phone. I was curious more than anything.

Mine is 3 weeks old, and I've got it :-)....( I didn't order it as an option)

I've got it. But I can't see what the point of it is? Maybe I'm missing something.

From what I can tell, it's a special feature to allow your kids to use your phone's entire month's 4G data allowance in one long car journey's worth of YouTube nonsense-watching.

Fairly sure I read somewhere that you have to insert a sim card somewhere in the glove box.

There's another thread that says 'I think it either needs a sim card in the car itself or an Android phone that support RSAP (Remote Sim Access Protocol)'

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/391268-columbus-wifi-hotspot-internet/