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jeromecarney Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 09, 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Los Angeles, California
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:48 am Post subject: Sluggish performance while dowloading traffic updates? |
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I just got on board with NAV5 a few weeks ago and in general I'm very happy, probably due to realistic expectation about what a GPS solution can truly offer.
My only major disappointment is with the system's sluggish performance while downloading traffic updates. The onscreen image will freeze for up to a minute at a time, the voice prompts may or may not work, etc. Because this has caused me to miss critical turns, I have disabled automatic update and just download manually when I'm on a long stretch of highway.
I'm based in California, but because I travel a fair amount for work, I was originally working off the Western U.S. map set, but I recently switched to just Southern California, hoping for a much faster traffic download time, but it still seems to take a good five minutes or longer.
I'm on a 3G wirless network, and downloads are normally blazing. Has anyone else encountered these issues and can offer any suggestions?
Thanks ...
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StevePritchard Regular Visitor
Joined: Aug 15, 2005 Posts: 78
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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I can't really offer any words of hope, but I can say that it doesn't exhibit this behaviour on my setup (Toshiba E800 with BlueTooth SD Card to GPRS Connection via Nokia 6230i).
Cheers,
Steve. |
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korndog Lifetime Member
Joined: Jan 29, 2005 Posts: 236 Location: yorkshire
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Mine was sluggish during downloads until I replaced the memory card. I had a Sandisk, which are usually ok but I think there was a problem with this one. I replaced it with a Kingston 512Mb and its perfect now.
It used to take ages on address search too but that's sorted now :D |
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jeromecarney Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 09, 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Los Angeles, California
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:55 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the various feedback. On my end, I tried overclocking my PPC using XPCUScalar, but with no success.
Tonight I'm going to try re-formatting/defragging my SD card & I'll report back on any improvements tomorrow. If I'm still getting traffic drag , I'll probably bite the bullet and upgrade to either the Ultra SanDisk 2GB Ultra II SD or the Ritek 150x High Speed 2GB SD. |
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