Suppport Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products.

Was one of the suggestions bittorrent? Cause that'd be pretty easy to spread and it'd cut Rand's bandwidth costs.

 

No different than downloading it directly. You still have the have the whole package for it to work. Just tell them if they do decide to use BT, don't put it on superseed. That will just bottleneck it for a couple days before anyone can get it.

 

does anyone have a quick fix for the "lag"? it seems to happen at random times... lags about a quarter mile behind where I'm at. Usually when I need it most of course.

 

On the addresses on that wrong side of the road comment.
They are actually on the correct side of the road, it is the business that is on the wrong side.
If you watch the road the odd are on one side and even the other.
Many company's own the land across the street or just have a post address there. No clue why, but I see it allot.
The address is on the side the unit says, the building is just on the wrong side.

 

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Originally Posted by ChromeDome
On the addresses on that wrong side of the road comment.
They are actually on the correct side of the road, it is the business that is on the wrong side.
If you watch the road the odd are on one side and even the other.
Many company's own the land across the street or just have a post address there. No clue why, but I see it allot.
The address is on the side the unit says, the building is just on the wrong side.

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I hate getting suckered into having to prove myself, so to quote a couple of my older Vet friends... "dude, you weren't there so you wouldn't understand".

The TND 500 is not my first or only gps unit. I also have Sony which I use in my car and as a backup it the truck, and previously had a Cobra GPSM 7700. Both of those units show addresses on the correct side of the road while the TND 500 shows the same address on the opposite/wrong side.

My home address is a perfect example... I live on the odd numbered side of the street. As I approach my house which is on the right, the TND 500 tells me my address is on the left. (I do not own land across the street!). To prove a point, if I approach from the other direction and my house is on the left, the TND 500 tells me it is on the right. Again, this seems to be the case with about 75% or more of the addresses which I travel to. The TND 500 database is wrong. I would expect better of Rand McNally, especially since the other gps manufacturers have managed to get it right the first time.