Sync2 (and Sync3 presumably) have the capability to take your cell phone internet connection and act as a server for other mobile devices (tablets, iPods, and laptop computers) for the other occupants of your truck. However, if you are on Verizon, like me, it will not work unless you pay the additional monthly fee for internet hot spot. Once you pay for that, there really is no advantage to setting up the truck to distribute your internet signal from your cell anyway. Your phone can handle all of that by itself, and your passengers are close enough that there is no need to ever connect to the truck because their devices will never be out of range.

Do other carriers limit your hot spot function to a single connection? Is there some other use that I'm missing here? I could see if the hot spot function would allow you to bypass your phone's internet sharing limitations, but it doesn't. What am I missing here?

 

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There is with Sync2. I wonder if they removed it for Sync3 because it served no function?

 

https://owner.ford.com/how-tos/sync-...0&sync=myTouch

 

I have AT&T and HS is free. If your phone has HS ability then there is no advantage to using the truck but it would be handy if your phone was not HS capable.

 

Well, if your phone is not Hot Spot capable, how does it pass the internet connection to the truck?

 

If your theory works, then I think you are the first person that found a practical scenario for this feature lol.

Useless s**t! Yet no low washer fluid warning

 

While true we don't have the very useful low washer fluid warning that cheaper vehicles have. We still have the old fashion no washer fluid warning..

 

I got blasted for being surprised that my Lariat does not have LWFW.

A Canadian truck with at least 1000KM range per tank and no LWFW.

https://www.f150forum.com/f118/anyon...asting-322833/

 

Well thats a good point. Maybe the advantage would be having the truck act as a firewall of sorts so that if you have strangers accessing your wifi say at a job site for work they wouldn't be connecting directly to your phone. Im just guessing here I don't know if that makes sense or not.