Thread: Bell 8830 GPS
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Old 07-22-2007, 03:41 AM   #37
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Model: 8830
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Originally Posted by jefwic View Post
Fire, does your GPS work if you turn off the wireless or go out of wireless range? I know the maps won't download but will it read latitude/longitude coordinates?

I just tried to do that I turned the wireless Network off and went to maps and directions it worked, but it open the wireless network automatically back ON, so i'm not really sure if you are out of range if it would work, it searches for Satellite signal not network accept when you use the map nav they want to charge you for the data you use for map download each time. technically it should work unless they programed it not to work when you are out of signal because they wouldn't be able to charge you then for the data download. the best would be to try that somewhere with no network signal
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