+Doombot! Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 I got my GPSmap 60c today and promtly transfered six Metroguide 4.XX mapsets (50.6 MB) onto it. My Vista would accept 30MB in around one hour for a data transfer rate of ~0.833 KB/Sec. The 60c transfered 50.6 MB in 2 minutes 26 seconds for a transfer rate of ~346.5 Kb/sec. That makes the data transfer ~416 times faster. Just some more real-world data for you all. Doombot! Quote Link to comment
+Ish-n-Isha Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 I got my GPSmap 60c today and promtly transfered six Metroguide 4.XX mapsets (50.6 MB) onto it. My Vista would accept 30MB in around one hour for a data transfer rate of ~0.833 KB/Sec. The 60c transfered 50.6 MB in 2 minutes 26 seconds for a transfer rate of ~346.5 Kb/sec. That makes the data transfer ~416 times faster. Just some more real-world data for you all. Doombot! I have a 60CS on order but I also have a Vista and a Garmin V. Please tell me how to get 30 megs of maps on the vista. I have never been able to do more than around 24 I think. Quote Link to comment
+sbukosky Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Oh, I'm going to be in Heaven! I just got done with a trip to upper Michigan and have to go to the south side of Chicago tomorrow. As usual, around a half hour to load up 18 megs of maps and still not enough to cover the area I need. Quote Link to comment
+Doombot! Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 I got my GPSmap 60c today and promtly transfered six Metroguide 4.XX mapsets (50.6 MB) onto it. My Vista would accept 30MB in around one hour for a data transfer rate of ~0.833 KB/Sec. The 60c transfered 50.6 MB in 2 minutes 26 seconds for a transfer rate of ~346.5 Kb/sec. That makes the data transfer ~416 times faster. Just some more real-world data for you all. Doombot! I have a 60CS on order but I also have a Vista and a Garmin V. Please tell me how to get 30 megs of maps on the vista. I have never been able to do more than around 24 I think. Whoops, I meant 24MB. So the 60c is about 600 times faster. And your Father smells of elderberrys. Doombot! Quote Link to comment
+Ish-n-Isha Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Whoops, I meant 24MB. So the 60c is about 600 times faster. And your Father smells of elderberrys. Doombot! Quote Link to comment
peter Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 You might want to check your math. If the Vista takes one hour to transfer 24 MB, that's a transfer rate of 6.7 kB/s, and the 60c at 50 MB in about 2.5 minutes is about a factor of 50x faster. That's reasonable considering that the theoretical rate of USB 1.1 (12 Mb/s) is about 100x faster than the Garmin RS-232 rate of 115 kb/s and you'd expect the faster interface to be affected more by handshaking, processing time, etc. therefore only getting a factor of 50x in practice. Quote Link to comment
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