Hi,

MIB3 wireless carplay - I just want to understand how it connects partly out of curiosity, partly as we're travelling to France in a couple of weeks and as my O2 connection utilises UK allowance and I have 12Gb it would be great to get the family to tether.

So I've read on google that it uses Bluetooth to create the initial connection and then hands over to wifi connecton for data; funnily enough mine always drops once every time I connect after a couple of minutes so I wonder if that is this the handover not being seamless.

With respect to a couple of things in mind:

1. If I'm connecting to Carplay does anyone simultaneously create a hotspot for others to tether to (e.g. kids with tablets with no mobile connection)

2. If not, can you create a hotspot if connected to Carplay by cable?

3. When I first bought the car and set it all up, everything was fine. I changed the SSID of the car wifi to the number plate (just mucking around) - from that point, when the phone connected to the car outside the house, all seemed to work; but when I drove off, the car seemed to lose data. Seemingly the car was connecting to the phone for carplay, but connecting to the house for data; as it lost connection to the house, it seemed to just do nothing until eventually the phone asked if I wanted to use mobile data; like the phone was getting from the car rather than the car from the phone? Was that something else I did? It doesn't do it anymore and that may be after the last MIB software update reset but just curious if there was some setting that I did...

Cheers - appreciate these are a bit niche - but someone might happen to know.

CarPlay creates its own network and uses that, along with Bluetooth (to establish the initial connection).

You can use the car hotspot AND wireless CarPlay, but you can't then connect to the hotspot with the device itself - that's just trying to connect to too many wireless networks.

It's the same as trying to connect with CarPlay and the WiFi in your house - the phone just can't do it.

For 3, mine does the same thing sometimes - there are settings on the phone to fix this (I can't remember what - auto connect or something). It's likely they were ticked, or unticked, when you first tried it.