Product Description

NAVIGON 10000250 Traffic Card. With NAVIGON Lifetime Traffic service you can steer clear of traffic incidents, congestion and construction with automatic updates on your NAVIGON GPS device. Along with incident information, you will be automatically advised of traffic flow conditions ahead with simple and easy to read red/yellow color coding on your route. Plus, with alternate route guidance you can bypass all the headaches ahead and get to your destination on time. The service is active for the life of your product no trial periods, no monthly fees and no annoying credit card charges. It¿s ready to go right out of the box.

Product Details

• Brand: Navigon
• Model: 10000250
• Platforms: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 2.00" w x .5" l, .5 pounds

Features

• Compatible with NAVIGON 2100/2120
• U.S. and Canada Coverage Covers 68 Major Markets
• Alternate Routes Delivered Automatically to You
• Easy to Read Screens Color Coding and Actual Sign Images
• Quality Traffic Data Stringent Quality Control Processes Ensure Accuracy

Customer Reviews

An excellent traffic monitoring chip for the Navigon GPS series
A useful addition to the Navigon GPS line of products.

This chip contains a key code, which once registered with the Navigon website, allows you to receive continuous traffic updates with your Navigon GPS units (including the 2100, 2120, 5100 and 7100 series).

Having had a chance to assess this Traffic Service on a trip south and back, I'll comment on a few things I liked and didn't like...

The good:

1.)Once you've purchased this chip, the traffic service is a lifetime feature; no further monthly or yearly subscription fees or purchase updates required, ever!

2.)The traffic information is monitored continuously around most major highways and cities.

3.)You can set your unit up to give traffic info just on the route your driving, or you can get info within a radius of where you are at the moment.

4.)If a traffic problem does occur ahead of you the unit will tell you several things;

a.]it gives you the distance to the 'obstruction', giving you time to make detour planning.

b.]the unit (on your GPS map) tells you which you which side the the 'obstruction' is on (e.i. your side of the highway or the other); this is actually a very useful feature.

c.]the unit can automatically (if you set it up to do so) make a route around the 'obstruction' ahead.

A couple concerns:

1.)The charger cord from the cigarette lighter acts as an antenna for the traffic program. So if you don't have your unit plugged in (and you are running on unit battery only), you may not get good traffic info service.

2.)There is little or no information on side roads, byways or small towns/cities. There were even a couple of sections of more 'remote' Interstate Highways that had no coverage.

3.)There may be some delay in getting information to your unit (obviously a accident or delay must be reported before it can be relayed to your unit). However once it reaches your unit, I found that there was ample time and distance to try to detour around what ever was causing the problem.

Conclusion:
The traffic monitoring chip offers a great benefit by providing useful information to those traveling on the major highways and larger centers; it is, however, less useful in a more 'rural' or smaller settings. You should use your cigarette charger cord for reliable traffic reports, as the cord acts as an antenna for this service. 4 1/2 to 5 Stars

Love Real Time Traffic
Real Time Traffic has helped me a number of times, re-routing me in a way that I thought might be crazy but worked out beautifully. Amazon has the best price on it. I got it on sale for less than the typical $99, and it's a lifetime subscription!

Lifetime service a good buy
I live in Dallas and use this service a lot. Several times it has prevented me from getting stuck in traffic by telling of the traffic alert and giving me the option of ignore or reroute around it. I usually choose reroute and as I get to the exit on the freeway it wants me to use as a bypass I will asset the road ahead visually and may choose to not take the exit and it will recalculate the route. There has been a few times I was wrong and should have taken its advice to reroute, so I pay the price by getting stuck in traffic and saying to myself I will believe it the next time for sure. I have a 5100 which included this Traffic service but I bought this service for my daughter's Model 2100. Their website is easy to use and activate this service. On my daughter's 2100 she needs to have the power cord plugged in for it to work but on my model 5100 it works fine without any external antennae. Navigon includes an antennae that plugs in the speaker jack but I use the speaker jack to go to a cassette adapter where the sounds come out my car speakers so I can hear it much better.