Real Time Traffic Receivers

[Winnie 2000]

Hello All, I just purchased the Rand McNally 7710 GPS and had a question about the Real Traffic option. My last GPS was a Garmin and on my car charge cord was the Traffic receiver and used the USB port to connect. I was wondering if I could use the Garmin cord with the Rand McNally to receive the Live Traffic. Anyone ever try this? both work off the USB port.

[garym114]

Usually, if the GPS does live traffic the antenna for that option is in the power cord. Just switching power cords would not give you traffic on a non traffic GPS

[SVTotem]

Since your Garmin and the 7710 are both traffic capable, there is a chance that this might work provided the data specifications are the same. The provider of the traffic service is likely the same, so it might work. I have not purchased the traffic capability for my 7710 since I did not find that feature particularly useful on my Garmin.

Before attaching the Garmin cord to the 7710 be sure the power ratings for both cords are identical.