Jeppesen USB Skybound Faster?

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> "Marco Leon" <mmleon(at)yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:414840a1$1_1@Usenet.com...
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>>I don't think anyone has commented about this on Usenet yet (or at least
>>Google doesn't have it) so I'll put the question out there. Can anyone
>>confirm that the USB Skybound datawriter is faster than the PCMCIA
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> Skybound
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>>II? I am contemplating getting it for the slight convenience factor of
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> using
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>>my desktop for updates. If it it *is* faster, that would seal the decision
>>for me to get it. But since Skybound II was actually slower than the
>>original, ya never know...

I used the Skybound USB last month. A buddy of mine has one and 5 or 6
of us borrow it when we want to update our GPS's. From the time you
fire up the program until the card is rewritten and ready to go is less
than 5 minutes. I have the GX55. The only downside to the whole deal
is you can't buy one time updates online from Jepp. They want to sell
you the one year subscription. So if you want a one time update you
have to call them on the phone.

Marco Leon wrote:

> Hmm 5 minutes huh? It takes me about that time to load up an update on the
> PCMCIA interface. It may be that the throughput performance of the hardware
> is not a major factor in the speed of the update. Thanks for thr PIREP.

Well lets see. You plug in the USB cord to the computer and set the box
on your desk. Put card in slot. Fire up the Skybound program and type
in your user name and password. This logs it on to the Jepp site and
downloads the update. I have cable so that's about a 10 second
download, there's not much data there. Program then writes it to the
card, maybe a couple minutes to erase then rewrite the card.