Downloading map takes a very long time
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@muurain said in Downloading map takes a very long time:
Suunto’s cloud service that throttles the downloads
but… you can download maps for the mobile phone that are much faster… so… if we think, same server is delivering them… this should not be the problem…
Anyway, I can live with it
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@snow said in Downloading map takes a very long time:
@muurain said in Downloading map takes a very long time:
Suunto’s cloud service that throttles the downloads.
Fair
they don’t
I think it has been mentioned when maps download was introduced, that the watches processing speed is the limiting factor here.
So, yes. It is slow and always has been slow.
While newer watches are a little faster.
The watch processors are selected to consume as little energy as possible for long battery life.
Thus they can handle the data transfer and unpacking only slowly.
As it is only required a single time, it should not really matter. -
@suzzlo said in Downloading map takes a very long time:
@muurain said in Downloading map takes a very long time:
Suunto’s cloud service that throttles the downloads
but… you can download maps for the mobile phone that are much faster… so… if we think, same server is delivering them… this should not be the problem…
Anyway, I can live with it
You’re right! I didn’t even realize that, even though I did download mobile maps too
And yeah this does seem like an understandable constraint of small smart devices.
I too am happy to have the convenience of WiFi downloads, even if they are pretty slow compared to bigger devices. My old Garmin Fenix maps downloaded way faster, but it was via USB cable and a PC.
But given the analysis here, the original post does now sound like a WiFi issue or a bug.
Maybe try downloading maps on some other place or WiFi…?If the download speed is considerably less than 1GB / hour (or ~2Mbps), it should work faster and there are not many broadbands this slow.
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