When I updated our GPS to the 2010 maps it similarly took several hours to download the Europe maps. I believe the file size was somewhere in the vicinity of 4-5 GB, and the update itself after downloading the data took about two hours if not more.
Obviously you're downloading ALL the data instead of just information about what's changed, which is just so incredibly wasteful I have no words. There aren't THAT many changes to the roads in a year or two.
I am now on a 384/384 connection, the GPS is begging to be updated, and I just can't bring myself to even try. It'll take days now - on a connection that gets forcibly reset every 24 hours.
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Date: 2011-05-13 05:52 am (UTC)Obviously you're downloading ALL the data instead of just information about what's changed, which is just so incredibly wasteful I have no words. There aren't THAT many changes to the roads in a year or two.
I am now on a 384/384 connection, the GPS is begging to be updated, and I just can't bring myself to even try. It'll take days now - on a connection that gets forcibly reset every 24 hours.