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Confirmed: Website performance is still grotty, often transactions fail on first attempt and need 1-2 retries (access from Telekom, Germany). But at least some reaction. About 3 hours ago, response was so slow that it always ran into timeout. Observing generally poor performance already since Friday evening (19:00 UTC).

It definitely is. We just went out for an extended night caching tour, hoping to see any difference in behavior. And indeed, my device tilted twice (one time mine was off 90 meters while both devices were lying on the floor close to each other, another time it decided to drift until being off about 50 meters while we were walking along a railway track. Both times it stabilized without intervention. I wouldn't have noticed these issues this time without comparing track data after the walk. The other device with 2.70 didn't show unexpected inaccuracies. Still V 2.70 is not available for download... I wonder what's going on at Garmin... Maybe Garmin support can provide the firmware upon request?

I friend of mine just received his brand new Vista HCx - and it shows version 2.70 (for both, software and GPS). So far he didn't experience the inaccuracy problem - so there is hope! Unfortunately that version is not yet available for download, but maybe Garmin wants to give it a slow start to avoid a similar disaster as with 2.60... My own unit notoriously and persistently kicks me off the track after extended caching walks. First I believed it was related to WAAS/EGNOS, but switching that feature off didn't help. The worst experience I had was the position being off about 200 meters after a walk through a woody valley in the shadow of a steep hill. I think it's acceptable that position isn't that accurate under such conditions. What really makes it bad is that the unit doesn't recover from this situation, even if left alone under perfect reception conditions for a while... I developed the habit to power cycle the unit multiple times when approaching a cache location, just in case...