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Wow, $5 per month. Wish they sent me that deal, the best they sent me was $150 per year.
That's not how cell calls work. When you call a friend across the city, the cell signal does not bounce off 10 towers to get across the city to their phone, it's routed through the phone network to the tower near your friend. When you call a friend across the country, your call is routed across the internet to the phone network near your friend. The only time a tower is used, is for the radio signal to carry the call to/from the cell phones.
It's not latency related - it only takes about 50 milliseconds to go from Toronto to LA on the fiber backbone. It's probably a lot of protocols for authentication so you don't start someone else's truck, along with processing time of the server, all depending on how the process works, is the actual delay. The signal transit time would be less than 100ms to start your truck in your own driveway. A lot less if the server is more centrally located. I picked LA as an example because it's one of the furthest points in the southern states from me, and it's still less than 100ms there and back.
We're at the mercy of AT&T and Siruis.
The only benefit I can think of is wanting to start your truck when the key fob is too far away to work - like maybe in a large parking lot or similar. I prefer to be nearby if remote starting, so no benefit for me.
Third world problems for sure.
I assume you guys don't live there it gets really hot or cold? Nothing better than being able to remote start it from outside keyfob range to come to a nice and toasty truck instead of an ice brick.
