GPS Baud Rate

[Doyley]

Hi all,

Can somebody explain what GPS Baud Rate is please and what it should be set at?

Many Thanks

[Charlie]

It's the speed at which the data is transferred from the GPS receiver to the PDA. In most cases 4800 is enough but different receivers use different speeds.

[cologne]

Hi, my first post!

...So, the higher the better or is there any risk of loss with let's say 38400 compared to 4800?

[Charlie]

There is a set speed at which each recevier is designed to transmit at so upping the speed wont always make it better.

[cologne]

Originally Posted by Charlie

There is a set speed at which each recevier is designed to transmit at so upping the speed wont always make it better.

Thxs, what I am saying is that if you have to choose between two receivers but one has a Default Baud Rate of 4800 and the other of 38400, if other than this they are absolutely identical, then the best choice is the 38400, right???

[Stevie]

the higher the baud rate you set the more you gps with drop connection if it is BT (this is what i have found)

[pege63]

Originally Posted by Stevie

the higher the baud rate you set the more you gps with drop connection if it is BT (this is what i have found)

Hi Steve and Charlie.
Could this be related to why I loose fix on my TTN BT (+ Ipaq rx3715), is there any settings to be changed? TomTom help line told me to install v3.07 driver but my PDA says its already on. I have sofar used the TTN3 relatively little but reliability has not been that great and I would certainly not use it without any paper maps as back-up. Hope that TTN5 will be better but I still think that there is a weakness with the TTN BT (see my other posting 29.7).

[Lynas]

Try it at 4800.

Safe speed and always works for me.