WiFi connectivity to home network while sleeping?

[Seano]

I've looked around and found a thread or two, but nothing on point - car in my garage or just outside garage has near zero AT&T coverage and I can’t connect to the vehicle, despite having a wi-fi access point in the garage.

It appears to disconnect when car asleep - is there a way to keep it connected?

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[Ye8qhYD7f]

If it's a gen2, it sounds like a wifi connectivity issue that some gen2 have. I've gone through multiple troubleshooting with the service and finally give up.

 

[Seano]

Is your situation not connecting at all or when sleeping?

Once the car is woken up, it seems fine using WiFi.

 

[andrewgrhogg]

Pretty sure the wifi turning off during sleep is an intended occurrence to preserve battery power. You can keep the car in camp mode or have it keep climate control on but that will of course use battery. Otherwise, yet another request to Rivian to add this as a feature.

Best bet is to buy a cell signal booster - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T2GGX9...xid|7035cc08-3560-4f6a-a166-8be1146e49c4&th=1

 

[KBabione]

Do you need a signal booster? I have AT&T for my cellphones and have found, in areas with weak signals, that the Rivian gets a stronger (and faster) signal than my cell phones without any kind of booster.

This past weekend I was in a remote area in the hills of southern Pennsylvania near the Maryland border. We needed to upload a number of photos from my wife's phone to DropBox and only had 2 bars on the phone and it wasn't going very well. I went out to the Rivian (which had 3 bars), connected to the hotspot and the files started uploading significantly more quickly. I then drove the Rivian to the top of the mountain and it had 4 bars (cell still had 2) and the files flew into Dropbox.

We've had the same results while taking Teams calls from the car - tethered to the phone we kept dropping or getting the annoying "low bandwidth" message, but those issue went away when connected to the Rivian hotspot.

 

[Seano]

Not sure - we know where we live/work/travel here in the Bay Area, Verizon works much better for us - wish car manufacturers would give us a choice (not just a Rivian thing)

What I really want is to keep car on WiFi networks when home, office or vac home!

 

[ElGuano]

I put a wifi access point in the garage, because the car wasn't connecting to wifi. Turns out it didn't help, I think the car just disconnects while it sleeps.

It makes sense, I was just used to seeing our Tesla on the network, which seems to maintain its wifi connection 24/7, even when not plugged in.

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