Originally Posted by
Iride01
Are you using Garmin Express through a old Wifi router or other wireless ethernet appliance? If so, try hooking your PC or Macbook to a wired ethernet connection and see if that does better. If you use a router supplied by your ethernet provider, there might be one or more ethernet ports on it. Just need to supply a patch cable. And a usb ethernet adapter if your notebook is newer and doesn't have a rj45 jack.
It's not likely the router or anything else is the bottle neck. The estimates Express gives for updating maps is much, much longer than I've ever seen it take. I suspect Garmin Express is throttling the transfer so that it doesn't slow people's computers down or put too much of a load on their servers.
Originally Posted by
Iride01
7 or 8 years ago, updates and especially maps where a issue for me with Garmin Express. And I too got a lot of messages for Garmin server errors and such. I figured out it worked perfectly with a wired connection. I also realized I had a very old wifi appliance that didn't have all the new stuff. When I finally sprung for a new wifi endpoint, I could again used Garmin Express through the wifi with no issues.
Generally, stuff that old was much faster than the transfers. While there could have been problems, it seems like ancient history. (I update multiple devices on multiple computers in multiple places and never really had an issue.)
Originally Posted by
Iride01
Take some money with you to get another GPS device when you get to Europe.
There's no reason to do this. The device he has is completely able to handle what he is doing (I was doing the same thing with an even-older 800.) He should learn to use the device he has rather than adding to his problems by buying another device.
Originally Posted by
Iride01
You might find that the maps didn't fully load as you expect them too.
This is easy to check (pan to the area and zoom in).
Originally Posted by
Iride01
Especially if you are doing all this at the last moment before you go. It'll save you a lot of frustration just to get it and not bother with what you currently have for North America.
It doesn't take long. One could, in fact, do it "last minute" (whatever that means). It shouldn't be too hard to give yourself sufficient time (the "last minute" minute problem is easily fixed). Buying a different unit seems like an overly-expensive way to deal with an easy problem. If it's a different unit (something unfamiliar), it's likely going to add more problems. (TT is a bit "technically challenged".)