Tom Tom GPS map download

Our old Tom Tom GPS power supply has been acting up the last year or so.  The original power supply lasted 3 years and the next ones lasted less than 6 months each.  The one I just bought in June lasted 2 weeks.  What is it with these power supplies?  I did notice the last few power units were made in China, so that may be one of the reasons they don't last that long.

The old GPS also has 2 gig of internal memory, however the newer map downloads are too large to fit into memory.  So, we are stuck with maps that are a couple years old and out of date.  The GPS still works fine and I hate to give it up.  My plan is to take an old Verizon power unit and modify it to fit the GPS.  

In the meantime, we bought a new Tom Tom 1535 GPS and have been using it lately.  It accepts voice commands for just about everything and works fine.  As soon as I used it the first time the message came up saying the map was out of date.

  
 Since the files are so large to download, I waited until we could spend some time at Cassie & Jack's house and use their FIOS high speed internet service.  I thought it would take a couple hours and was surprised to see it still running after 3 1/2 hours.  Boy, was it ever slow and took forever.  At least we were able to watch episodes of King & Maxwell that they had recorded for us.  Three episodes to be exact.  Finally around 10pm the downloads finished and also the third episode at the same time.

See, we do live an exciting life up here on the mountain.  What about you?