Team Onebrow Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I just got into Geocaching and have a question: If I have a cable modem and I can switch the baud rate on my Magellan Meridian Gold to 115600, can I change the baud rate on Easygps to mimic the 115600? The reason why I'm asking is that when I did the setup with easygps it suggested 4800. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment
skillett Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 i think that easygps is talking about communicating with your gps for the purpose of up/downloading waypoints etc. 4800 baud seems to be the standard baud rate with all gps's it has nothing to doo with your modem. Quote Link to comment
ozarkray Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Go ahead. As long as the computer program and GPSr are set for matching baud rates, the thing should work. Even if it doesn't, you won't hurt anything; you'll only get an error message. Ray Quote Link to comment
+Mopar Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 The baud rate in easygps has no bearing on your internet connection. It's to set the speed of the transfer between your computer and your GPS. I'm pretty sure by default easygps uses the same baud rate as the GPS model selected's default setting. Quote Link to comment
+Thot Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 (edited) Your cable modem baud rate has nothing to do with this issue. It’s been a while since I did it, but my Magellan SporTrak Pro also has baud rate settings above 4800. So, when I setup EasyGPS I tried to use a higher rate, but it didn’t work right -- sometimes it couldn’t transmit to the GPSr, other time is sent some of the cache data but not all of it. I set it back to 4800 and had no more problems. I read somewhere that software establishes connection at 4800 and then resets automatically if higher baud rates are compatible. I don’t know if there’s anything to this or not, or if there is, whether EasyGPS has this ability or only the mapware that comes from Magellan. Edited December 30, 2004 by Thot Quote Link to comment
+strikeforce1 Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Onebrow I’ve also herd, that once you’ve cycled the initial connecting, you can bump up the rate! Mine are set to 4800 / 9600 depending on the gps! This is set on your GPSr! You can try bumping it up one step at a time until you either max out, or it stops working, if you have that option on your gpsr. SF1 Quote Link to comment
+Ladybug Kids Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 I set both my EasyGPS and Magellan SporTrak Map to 115600 and data flies back and forth just fine. I'm running a 3.0 Ghz desktop with 1Gb of RAM and an 800 Mhz FSB, so that might have something to do with the speedy serial port communication. Quote Link to comment
+denali7 Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 big jonrowe fan here, ladybug--LOVE your sigline! Quote Link to comment
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