USB Receiver advice please

AndyMM · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 11, 2004 Posts: 3

Having a few problems with my ICN630 crashing especially in Paris. As I always have a laptop and Autoroute 2004 I wanted to buy a USB receiver so in the event of major problem with the Navman I can plug the USB receiver in to the laptop and find out where I am.

I do not need routing, voice command etc the Navman gives me all that when it works. All I am after is a cheap (Sub 150GBP) USB receiver that is preferably small and USB powered (I already have 4 leads to the cigar lighter :-) that I can use as an emergency backup.

Any advice appreciated, I have seen some articles that say the Royaltek Sapphire is fine and that it works with AR 2004 but other articles seen rather vague.

Cheers Andy

delboy0754 · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

I'll recommend the Fortuna U2, and it works with autoroute

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=U2-USBGPS

Don't let the price put you off, it works brilliantly, and magnetic.

AndyMM · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 11, 2004 Posts: 3

Magic, I have just ordered one. Thanks for that (Low prices never put me off :-)

Andy

AndyCr15 · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:32 pm Post subject:

I would be interested to know how you get on with this (delivery time length, ease of use etc). Like you, I would appreciate a back-up incase I have problems with my PPC GPS.
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delboy0754 · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:56 am Post subject:

I'm no PC or GPS expert, but i got this to work practicaly out of the box. I went onto the Fortuna web site,

http://www.fortuna.com.tw/download.htm

and downloaded the update driver for XP, loaded drivers, plugged in U2 and configured it to work in Autoroute, which found it straight away.

There was my little car exactly where i was parked outside my home. The location sensor was in the corner with co-ordinates, altitude, etc.

Delivery was spot on, they had it in stock when i ordered, and it was delivered next day.

I've also used it with "Infomap Navigator" which has voice directions, and it never faultered. Although it was a bit more akward to configure, and i remembered to press the GPS tab which is a small icon to go into receive mode.

Hope this helps.

xda · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:37 am Post subject: Re: USB Receiver advice please

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