Support Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products. (part two)

Well, when I can download similar sized files in about 30 minutes on the same network and it takes 5+ hours to download the map update, then that seems to indicate that the WiFi network that I was on is not the problem.

RM should compress theit updates into a "package", download that "package" and have the Rand Dock.software uncompress and install the files instead of having its customers download a bunch of individual files which seem to be uncompressed.

Most other software companies have been doing it that way for decades!

 

Can you download the map update to a 16gig SD card then transfer it to the GPS ? I don't remember if this was possible on the 720.

 

You need to dock the gps so it can be programmed to know to look at the SD card for map data.

 

Could it be that this person is asking if the SD card can be inserted into a card reader/writer in the computer to download the maps to it and then put the SD card into the TND later? I wonder because I had that question earlier in this process. I couldn't try it though because I had dock issues that Mark figured out and fixed. I still owe you one, Mark.....

 

Okay, so I started updating my 720 earlier. Once the download was complete, I assume, it was ready to start transferring. Thus I started it & walked away, came back an hour later, to around 8 hours remain (went up a little), checked again, 10 hours, again, 14 hours, again, we are now at 15.5 hours. What is the deal? I am sitting at the house on an awesome connection & 15 hours to complete? What gives??? I have to leave out at 9am for Miami & I would like to have my GPS updated. At this point I'm going to have to factory reset it & try again this weekend.