On star & Chevy 4g

[George Papp]

Just got a 2017 Silverado and my complimentary Chevy 4g & on star expire in a few days. 
 

I connect my iPhone for navigation, phone, music etc
 

What features will I lose if I don’t subscribe to either? (Besides the remote on the Chevy app)

 

I have unlimited data on my iPhone so I don’t care about that. 
 

thanks

[mikeyk101]

Probably nothing. I still have the basic plan for about another year that came with it when I bought new and only really use the remote lock/unlock. I also use my own phone for navigation and such through Android Auto. I have Unlimited data in my phone but can be throttled after IIRC, 25gb. So I did go ahead and order the unlimited wifi for the truck which is $20 a month. This way, I will usually use the truck hotspot for data to save it on my phone. Also when traveling with my young son, he likes using his tablet and even though I can turn my phone data on as a hotspot, that is also extremely limited and having the unlimited data hotspot in the truck is worth it for me. I could be wrong but thought I read somewhere that the truck wifi is able to acquire a signal in many more places than a phone can so it can stay better connected.

Edited March 4, 2020 by mikeyk101

[Jheyt]

41 minutes ago, mikeyk101 said:

Probably nothing. I still have the basic plan for about another year that came with it when I bought new and only really use the remote lock/unlock. I also use my own phone for navigation and such through Android Auto. I have Unlimited data in my phone but can be throttled after IIRC, 25gb. So I did go ahead and order the unlimited wifi for the truck which is $20 a month. This way, I will usually use the truck hotspot for data to save it on my phone. Also when traveling with my young son, he likes using his tablet and even though I can turn my phone data on as a hotspot, that is also extremely limited and having the unlimited data hotspot in the truck is worth it for me. I could be wrong but thought I read somewhere that the truck wifi is able to acquire a signal in many more places than a phone can so it can stay better connected

 

don’t the trucks use at&t though?  So it’s only as good as an at&t signal. 

[15 Z71]

I will say I had the wifi for a little while and it worked great. I played pandora from my phone my wife on Facebook watching videos my sons on tablets playing online games and watching YouTube. 

[corvette43056]

You won't lose much just much sure you turn wifi off on your phone or it will still connect to truck and won't work as well

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[George Papp]

Thank you all!

[mikeyk101]

2 hours ago, Jheyt said:

 

don’t the trucks use at&t though?  So it’s only as good as an at&t signal. 

It is AT&T on the truck. It seems to get a nice all around signal though.

[Darmichar]

17 hours ago, 15 Z71 said:

I will say I had the wifi for a little while and it worked great. I played pandora from my phone my wife on Facebook watching videos my sons on tablets playing online games and watching YouTube. 

This.  We road trip in the truck a lot and the ability for my wife to work and my daughter to watch her iPad in the back make the unlimited 4G well worth the $20/month.

[mkelly61]

I have unlimited WiFi in my ‘15. I use it on the way to remote sites where my cell was unable to get, and keep a reliable connection. (So it does reach places cell won’t, as another poster suggests.). If connectivity is critical, get the unlimited data. I was on way to a site and exceeded the limit. Lost connectivity and voice command. Plan would have automatically renewed in a few days, but the folks were pretty unforgiving about anything short of adding a few GB or purchasing the unlimited.