Returned from Florida and using the Quest in the real world and the refresh problem was real. A couple of times we went off route and because we continued driving while the unit was recalculating it had to recalculate again as we passed an intersection. Quite annoying.

There are ways to improve the situation though. One is the calculation methodology, we had it set to finding the best route so that means it spends more time calculating. Changed the setting to quickest and that helped a lot but it missed some really obvious routing options so we settled on quicker while navigating in the car but went to best when planning a route back at camp.

Another improvement was to turn off the automatic zoom. The unit is set to zoom in or out depending on how far ahead the next turn is. So as you approach your turn it zooms in tighter and tighter. Naturally that takes time and sometimes the display would be blank for a number of seconds while it was redrawing just at a critical time for navigating. So for slow driving I just set the zoom level at 300 metres but on the Interstate this led to more problems as the map had to be redrawn every few seconds at the higher speeds. So, zoomed out to about 8 kilometres and that seemed to work just fine.

With those changes, the slow refresh problem was reduced quite a bit but it still existed.

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