Customer Reviews

GR-213-USB: Holux USB Mouse GPS Receiver GR-213 for PC

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
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Hi!
I decided to purchase Holux, because of reviews I founded on web. I have had a lot of headache with Garmin GPS 18 USB, which is pretty hard to make work properly under any OS.
Holux, worked perfectly under XP, Vista & Linux (using gpsd), very good sencetivity (works even inside buildings), excellent accuracy.
There is nothing more to say.
Highly recommended.
Cheers
ET

I bought this GPS receiver to replace a Microsoft branded receiver I had that got destroyed some time back. The first thing that went smoothly was the installation of the drivers onto my Windows 7 laptop. Once I used their diagnostic software to verify that it was working correctly, I tried it with my moving map software. It works wonderfully. I had the opportunity to try it out in a sheer moment of "where the heck am I?" on a weekend trip. From the time I plugged the unit into the computer, to the map showing me the "You Are Here" location was less than a minute.

My one upset about the puck is the length of the USB cable. Granted, it's 6 foot long, but I would have liked a bit more.

Certainly works great!

The product is fine, appears to work as described. I'm using it with my netbook and a free nautical Navigation program but haven't had a chance to test it other than seeing that it does pinpoint my current location. I am looking forward to using them on my boat this spring/summer) The GPS installation instructions were minimal I thought, one section on a large sheet that repeated the instructions in maybe 15 languages). They referred to a test .exe file that I didn't find on the enclosed disk. The driver(s) etc., are on a mini-CD which didn't work in my tower's vertical CD drive, so I had to find another computer and copy the CD to a usb flash drive. Also, it wasn't clear to me that the driver on the disk was for Win 7. However, I did easily find what I needed on the Holux site, although I was still slightly confused/uncertain about the driver(s) I needed. Also, the test program was a compressed .RAR file, not a zip file, which required finding and downloading a RAR compression/extraction program (free for 40 days). Becoming comfortable and accomplishing all this required several hours and was slightly inconvenient. I rated it four stars due to what I considered to be disk/instruction deficiencies. For perspective, I am over 70 and only moderately computer savvy. As such, my experience may have little relevance for most younger folks or others sharper on computers who would likely have no problems installing the device.

This receiver worked, under Windows, for an hour or so, then bombed out. I fought it for several days, installing and uninstalling many different drivers, but could not get it to work. Tried it under Linux with TangoGPS and it just plain works, every time, no problems. Got a GlobalSat on the way, giving up on this one with Windows.