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Re:Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more by SEJeff on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:59AM (#18912614)
The software updates in Tesla generally only happen over Wifi, not cellular. I had to lay conduit from my home to my garage, drill through the masonry, run some more conduit inside the garage, pull CAT6 through from my basement through the conduit to my garage... Then fish the cable through the ceiling and mount a Unifi AC Pro access point in my garage because I wanted the latest autopilot update. Yeah...
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Re:Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more by fastball on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:09PM (#18912721)
You definitely didn't need to do that.

There are much cheaper APs than a Unifi AC Pro.

Which tells me you probably could've saved money in some other ways as well.

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Re:Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more by tk75x on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:51PM (#18913179)
He should have parked within range of his house wifi and updated while sipping a beverage.
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Re:Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more by SEJeff on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:22PM (#18913484)
I had the AC Pro in my home, and had just bought an AC HD to upgrade it. So I had a "spare" AC Pro just laying around, as you do when you computer for a living.
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Re:Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more by goobynight on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:09PM (#18913363)
"had to"
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Re:Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more by justin66 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:20PM (#18912829)
Interesting that a range extender wasn't sufficient.
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