Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 With GPS Locator[Old Version]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 With GPS Locator[Old Version]
Customer Review: microsoft streets 2006
Summary: 5 Stars
wonderful! great navagation aid, works great, couldn't be better. Some said they had trouble loading drivers for GPS but mine loaded without any difficulity. Very accurate, never get lost while traveling again!Customer Review: Great Product from Microsoft
Summary: 4 Stars
I used this to replace the GPS I had for my Pocket PC and I love it. I did a ride along with a police officer and saw this for the first time. I especially like the night maps. The only feature that it is missing, is a re-direct if you get off route, which my pocket PC GPS had. I recently took this on an airplane. While sitting on the isle seat, and my wife in the middle seat, I draped the cord over her lap and had the GPS sensor pointed out the window. I was able to pick up signal and could see the flight path, speed, and altitude we were flying. This was pretty cool!!Customer Review: Works great, but get a GPS for a car.
Summary: 5 Stars
The road maps are better than anyone elses. The GPS homes in on the roads. For a travel log, it is great. The voice directions work well also.
The only problem is you can not see a PC screen in a car/van in sunlight. I use it more for uploading maps to a GPS.
Customer Review: lots of set up time
Summary: 2 Stars
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I bought this because I already had a Compaq Evo N400C laptop running a Pentium III chip and wanted the cheapest GPS out there. Also, I wanted a really good locator.
The price of the entire package is much less than the price of gps locator alone. And it seems to be a quick and accurate locator.
I probably spent 12 hours getting this to work on my laptop. This included correspondence with microsoft support and pharos support. I kept getting "power surge at hub port" messages every time I plugged in the dongle of the gps locator. And the automatic configuration program of the gps locator couldn't find the COM port for gps. Microsoft had not a word of helpful advice. Pharos recommended testing the dongle on other machines and offered to retest the unit themselves.
I uninstalled both hidden and not hidden usb drivers. Then restarted the computer, which then automatically reinstalled the drivers. This fixed the problem of finding the correct COM port. I then bought and installed a usb 2.0 cardbus (pcmci?). This fixed the "power surge at usb hub port" problem. I don't know why the OEM usb 1.1 ports couldn't handle the dongle (and neither does Microsoft), but they can't.
Regarding difficulting hearing the voice commands from the laptop speakers, I bought an adapter that resembles at cassette tape and, when installed as a tape would be, plays over the car's speaker. This cost less than ten dollars.
I agree that the system is hard for a solo driver to use on the fly.
All the best,
Dan
Customer Review: Microsoft Streets and Trips w/GPST 2007
Summary: 3 Stars
Pros: Cost
Cons: We planned our first trip and it couldn't find Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, LA. The Casino/RV resort has been there for years.
It put it in Alexandria which would have totally screwed up our trip if we had depended on it to find it. MapQuest has the correct location and plotted the trip correctly. Evidently they are NOT updating the database and you can't contact them with the ID they provide...email comes back.
Disappointed in the product...but it's cheap...what can you say?