c710 is it that good???

shoesclogs · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 6

Hi All

After struggling for hours to get this gps to do what I want I am now at a loss to get this thing to work. All I want to do is get it to go via motorways and not all over the smaller roads that I know will be slower in rush hour. I have tried poi's via's bus lorry slowest fastest economical nothing works. Please is there anyone out there that can suggest something. frankly this is the least user friendly piece of kit I have ever owned why is it so highly rated? Are the rest even worse??

Thx

CeeJay · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:38 am Post subject: Re: c710 is it that good???

Hi shoesclogs.
Are we to assume you have the motorway option ticked in Route settings, if so, one question.
Are you using the TMC?
If so, don't plug the TMC aerial in before you start your journey.
Just a thought, but I suspect the TMC is routing you around reported traffic problems, as it does this automatically.

Sallyann · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 23, 2006 Posts: 768

I endorse all that CeeJay has said.
What you have to remember is that no routing device will ever give you the perfect result. It is just doing a large number of mathematical calculations based of distance and road speeds. It will never be as good as an experienced driver with knowledge of the route, so if you are familiar with any given area you will always know better routes than the device can offer you..
In general it will prefer motorways on long journeys, and be more likely to avoid them on very short ones.
Try this: Next time you are going to an unfamiliar place and you want to use the motorway, include a waypoint at the motorway junction nearest to your destination, or use that junction as your starting point. That way it will do exactly what you want. You don't need the navigation at your local end of the journey because you know those roads anyway.

Sal

shoesclogs · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 6

Hi there

thanks for the advice. I turned off TMC and tried a route nothing doing would not go near the motorway. Ticked motorways and still nothing tried bus, truck, emergency. Not doing it. I know that in the morning trying to go from Blackheath to Epsom it is quicker to go via the a20 and then m25 rather than drive thru every small road via croydon. Why on earth can you not select mostly motorway??? It seems obvious to me but not to the people that design GPS systems??? Am I missing something?

I will try to set a waypoint via motorway services etc but when I did this before it took me all the way there on a and b roads then onto the motorway just before the junction and then back off again?

Many thx

shoesclogs · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 6

Hi All

Wife was on the m27 and an accident came up on the tmc which auto re routed her thru the new forest avoiding the delay and she was very impressed. At last she is beginning to like the mio!!!!

Still need to spend more time figuring out PIO's and favorites but maybe we will crack it.

Thx

Stefan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 18

I have just returned from a week in Spain. I took the 710 with me as I knew that I would be doing a fair bit of driving. It was very impressive. It even had the service roads shown at the hospital than I was visiting (a sick relative in). Everything worked as you would expect. The TMC was picking up (using the external antenna) a range of traffic information, though some was hundreds of miles away. The GPS took about twenty seconds to find its location with a clear sky on initial startup in Spain (the closedown having been in the UK). It took it a little longer top find itself back in the UK. Not a problem given the 1500 mile difference in locations.

Speed limit information on the roads was reasonably accurate, though I would certainly not rely on it in any country!

So far I have found the battery life to be less than predicted. Usuing TMC, backlight and GPS I am only getting about two and a half hours before the low battery warning comes up.

Stefan

mgrah · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 28, 2006 Posts: 15

What bothers me a bit regarding the TMC re-routing is that there are only two options; off or automatic rerouting. I would prefer to have a possibility to have a dialogue where the device first asks me to do about a certain problem.

The Volvo RTI has this feature, and it's a lot better in city traffic where knowing the problem and the roads gives you the opportunity to based on personal experience decide wheter or not to re-route.

The TMC on the C710 does not display the full message, only the (what I assume) coded messages in plain text. Usually with the RTI I get a textual description that is attached to the TMC message (i.e. "Slow traffic, average speed right now is 15 km/h." or "Road construction until Nov 30, 2006."). I assume the messages are only displayed in the local language, but even so I'd like to see them displayed in Europe.

/Mikael

anarchyuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 15, 2006 Posts: 50

Hmm for a start a sat nav that comes integrated within a Volvo is chance to be fairly expensive, more so than a Mio C710 so in other words you get what you pay for. Plus if the Volvos sat nav

up, you`d have a lot to fork out in repairs too wouldnt you surely.

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