Tesla Data Usage: How I Hook My Model Y to Comcast’s xfinitywifi Hotspot
I’ll share in this post how I hooked my Model Y to Comcast’s xfinitywifi hotspots, which are free for all of its Cable Internet subscribers nationwide. You can do that to your Tesla, too. It’s fun!
For this to work, though, you need to be an Xfinity Cable Internet subscriber yourself or have a friend who’s willing to add your car as part of their own roaming devices.
While this post is about Comcast’s xfinitywifi hotspots specifically, the steps mentioned here may also apply to similar public hotspot services.
In the US, when driving around town, chances are you’ll see a public and open network called “xfinitywifi.” It’s one of the most ubiquitous public hotspots.
That is a Wi-Fi network broadcast by Comcast’s gateway — yes, the one I wrote in this piece on how to replace so that you can get rid of the monthly rental fee — aimed to keep its Internet subscribers connected even when they are not home.
If you use such a gateway, including the newly announced Wi-Fi 6E xFi Advanced Gateway, your rental equipment is part of making this public hotspot available to all other subscribers. And for the most part, that’s a good thing — the hotspot does not eat up your monthly data cap.
