Downloading map takes a very long time
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@larrybbaker “super fast” BT business WiFi (next to the router plugged in) then finished off at home after work
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@Goatee I have 1gig speed to the house and run eero mesh routers throughout the house and my watch downloads off and on the charger are great.
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@larrybbaker I think Scotland alone took 5+ hours
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@Goatee so I decided to test Scotland - not that I’ll ever use it. App showed 957.9 MB download size.
Start 7:53 pm finish 8:32 pm: 39 minutes elapsed.
Watch NOT on charger.
Vertical 2 latest FW
IOS 26.5
iPhone 17 Pro.I’d start investigating what you are really getting for internet service speeds and your hardware.
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@larrybbaker not even here…
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Race S, Vertical 1 have a slower processor than Vertical 2.
My Vertical 2 is also loading maps way faster than my Vertical 1.Since you do this only once a year or so, I think it does not really matter. Just leave the watch on the charger over night and it will be done.
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@larrybbaker I’m sure someone else said about Scotland being a really long download too
I had the phone & watch on charge
Race S
Samsung S25 Ultra
Android Suunto beta app -
In my experience, it takes too much time (hours).
There is a bottleneck somewhere, and it’s not the internet connection or router, since the offline maps for suunto app takes minutes or seconds.Perhaps it’s the watch procesor, memory… i think the slow item in this chain is the watch
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@suzzlo watch being the bottleneck makes sense. I did go ahead and test my V1 with the Scotland map download and it took just under an hour. So I still think there is more to it than the watch.
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This map update took sooo long also on my SRs (around 8-9 hours for whole France)
It has been noticeably faster to perform it on my SV1 (I would say around 20/30% faster - even it’s still long).
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Our household has a Race S and a Race 2 and to me they both feel equally slow on downloads. On average about 15min for ~250MB of download. So about 2.2Mbps.
The router reports the devices do get a 72.2Mbps wifi connection (2.4GHz/20MHz/1x1), but even with that they only ever use at maximum 5Mbps. My work macbook can pull close to 1Gbps from internet using the same router and internet connection using wifi 6.
So my guess is there is something in the watch or Suunto’s cloud service that throttles the downloads.
Its a small device so I kinda get how the hardware just might not keep up with a large download and the computing related it. I doubt anyone has a broadband connection this slow.But the speed is also really dependant about the wifi strength. Even though a router might first show a faster link, any movement and distance from the router during the download will kill the download speeds. I found that the best speed was within a 1-3m radius of our router with a line of sight between router and the watch.
Also 2.4GHz wifi band is often crowded, so your beighbours wifi usage might also interfere with the connection.
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@muurain said in Downloading map takes a very long time:
Suunto’s cloud service that throttles the downloads.
Fair
