Fm traffic

 

I have a 755t and I've noticed that the coverage since to be getting worse. Has anyone else noticed it?

Not Coverage

johnp61571 wrote:

I have a 755t and I've noticed that the coverage since to be getting worse. Has anyone else noticed it?

Not coverage but a bug in the 7x5 firmware. The GTM 20 is receiving fine but the 7x5 is getting screwed up.

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Fades to Grey Often...

cool

Seems to fade in and out in the DFW area.
I too think it's a firmware problem.

on my 765t...

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Couldn't get any worse in the Philly area>>>

johnp61571 wrote:

I have a 755t and I've noticed that the coverage since to be getting worse. Has anyone else noticed it?

already so inaccurate as to be unusable...going to test it out in other areas on my roadtrip this summer and if it is equally as bad I will just shut it off permanently...thought it was a neat feature, at least on paper, when I bought the 1490T...in practice it's about as useful as mammary glands on a bull.

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Fm traffic

Working in MidCities area

Baltimore Area

No problems in the Baltimore Metro Area

no problem here, but info is

no problem here, but info is not very accurate some times.

FM traffic out-of-date

Traffic notices are included with my 265wt. There is no problem receiving the information; but the reports are generally (always) out-of-date. I have passed through reported congestion with ease and have been stuck in areas that are reported clear.

It's just not that useful.

Yech.

Here in the Detroit area, the traffic feature is useless. I get data but can't ever remember it being accurate.

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Not lost anymore. Well, not as it pertains to driving anyway. -Garmin Nuvi 765t, 56 unt Mac user.

Here in the San Francisco

Here in the San Francisco bay area, it is sometimes accurate and sometimes not as much. More so than not.

Same Here

JohnFarruca wrote:

I have passed through reported congestion with ease and have been stuck in areas that are reported clear.

Here in the NYC area I have been stuck in "all clear" highways and sailed through "congested" areas. Just the other day the 765T was insisting I get off of the Long Island Expressway and onto the service road to avoid a one minute delay. I kept going and there was no delay. Even for an estimated one minute delay (yellow icon) it is usually not worth taking the detour.

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I support the right to keep and arm bears.

St. Louis area works fine

The few times, I have had to venture down into the city, it seemed pretty reliable and accurate. I live just off I-70 in St. Charles, and have seen it correctly report traffic during rush hour.

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I'm in the Chicago suburbs,

I'm in the Chicago suburbs, and it really seems to be a crap shoot. In absolute construction mayhem, the GPS doesn't show anything. And in clear conditions, it says I have a 3 minute backup.

Does anybody know if Clear Chanel is any better in this area?

-Jeff

Flawed logic

All of these services seem flawed to me. I had MSN for a few months and found it worthless most of the time.

Where I see the logic flaw is that while traffic on major routes may be accurately known (a big if...but assume it might be true)...the suggest alternatives seem to be on roads with NO data at all...so the assumption is that they must be better than the knows areas of congestion.

I found this to generally be a very poor assumption...the major roads are clogged daily sometimes the alternatives are good...sometimes much much worse.

Radio traffic reports are much better in most of the time than any experience I ever had with MSN.

Fm traffic

Mine hasn't worked yet on the new Nuvi 3760t I bought.

Pop ups are annoying...

I agree with much of what has been posted here regarding just how really useful this feature is. More often than not this feature is unavaiable on my Nuvi 1490 as I travel and when it does come on line I find the advertisement pop ups to be quite bothersome. I deactivated the traffic feature just to get rid of the pop ups.

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Ok in Montreal

Works fine in Montreal.

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Change Service Provider!

cool

Remember that most of these units in question came with free lifetime traffic and ads... If you dont want the ads or dislike the service then you have a choice of two other PAID service Providers:

MSN Direct and Clear Channel.

I DONT use the free service with ads, I will use MSN direct until it shutdown in 2012.

My 765t works BETTER with MSN and no ads.

When something comes free... Dont complain!!!

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"Destination Eternity" Garmin 765T, & Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

Me too

JohnFarruca wrote:

Traffic notices are included with my 265wt. There is no problem receiving the information; but the reports are generally (always) out-of-date. I have passed through reported congestion with ease and have been stuck in areas that are reported clear.

It's just not that useful.

Also, it doesn't tell you which direction or in my case in chicagoland, the tie up is on the frontage road, not the interstate.....

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lag

Here in Virginia Beach, it seems to lag behind a bit. When I see an alert, the situation is usually cleared up but still being reported as a delay.

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R/Tim NUVI 660, ETREX Vista, Rhino 120, zumo 660, nuvi 3790

Free???????

Nothing is free in life, people. Watching the ads is an expense no different than a credit charge to MSN. The only difference is the exchange medium with which you pay...and by the way....keep complaining...that's how things get changed!

Here in Tampa Bay I noticed

Here in Tampa Bay I noticed that I started having problems with reception a few months ago. I also noticed that the Clear Channel stations had much higher signals, so I plunked down the $60 for a sub.

WHAT A MISTAKE. Yes, I get much better reception now, but the Clear Channel traffic I receive is for 30-40 miles away from where I normally drive.

Once every few days or so the GPS will change and pickup Navteq for a little while. I can tell as soon as it does because the screen fills with stuff <10 miles away.

So now I'm stuck. I'd much rather have spotty reception of traffic I'm more likely to run into than great reception for 40 miles away. And of course there is no way (at least that I have found) to get rid of the Clear Channel sub now that I have it.

MSN Direct - 765T

How do you I turn on MSN direct on 765T.

I guess we are lucky

Seems to work fine here, SW Arizona

265WT - Phoenix

The FM broadcast works fine and I really have no problem with reception anywhere in the Metro area. However, accuracy is quite a different story.

It seems that traffic is forecast by checking road construction permits.

If there are cones there I get a red - regardless of the intensity of traffic. Real traffic backups (e.g. a wreck on a major route) take a long time to show up and usually report congested long after its been cleared.

Ditto

I've seen the same thing in the chicago area, construction zones showing up as red, when in reality, there were no tie ups...

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FM Traffic

I have 765T. Do you know current construction Zone will be display on the GPS.

Traffic

Seems to be working for me.

I don't turned it on often unless I travel outside my area.

That's why free...