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69 of 70 found the following review helpful:
 Don't bother. Oct 15, 2007
By R. T. Watkins
"duncandoenitz"
I've had this antenna for a couple of weeks now, and it only retrieved traffic info for two days. Since then, it connects to either of two radio stations in Atlanta and reports "no delays on route", even when I'm stuck in a two-hour traffic jam on I-285. Switching stations results in the "green dot" on the traffic monitor, and a further result of "no delays on route".
Several calls to TomTom tech support have been fruitless. The last time, they claimed their traffic server was down indefinitely. That would be bad enough, but the RDS-TMC information is not controlled by TomTom's service, it comes from Clear Channel's Traffic Network. The traffic server is only for their GPRS/Mobile Phone/TomTom Plus traffic service.
I had tried the TomTom Plus service prior to ordering the antenna, and it worked fairly well (when the traffic server was up) but I found the $19.95/month charge that T-Mobile added on to my bill to be a bit excessive when this antenna was supposed to do a comparable job.
I'm sending it back. If it was just an intermittent outage, I could understand that. Two solid weeks of "no traffic on route" while sitting in the I-285 parking lot for thirty-seven miles each way is ridiculous.
35 of 36 found the following review helpful:
Make sure you can return this if you buy it. Coverage may be overstated. Dec 29, 2007
By Fletch
I purchased the Tom Tom RDS-TMC antenna for my Tom Tom One XLS. I bought the correct one, said Tom Tom One XL right on the box. My Tom Tom software is the latest version 7.162, The unit was charged up and the power was on.
I checked to see if Clear Channel RDS-TMC coverage was in my area (said it as according to the coverage map and other press releases from RDS-TMC).
I was !so! hoping this item would work, but even though the Tom Tom unit recognized the antenna, it was never able to lock on to a channel and receive a signal. I drove for 40 miles near Cleveland and it never, not even for a blink of an eye, found a channel.
I searched the web for manual tuning options, I even stood outside with the receiver in hand in the open air and let it search and search and search ...nothing.
Without a signal, the $130.00 wire is pretty much useless. Forget about the 'web' being much help, Tom Tom pretty much states on their website, not responsible for the data and signal and refer you to Clear Channel RDS TMC, if you go to RDS-TMC, they refer you to Tom Tom...so what are you to do.?? I went to HH Gregg, they said yours if the first we sold and we don't know anything about the product. I went to Best Buy and the kid didn't know what I was talking about and they only sell this product on the web (I wonder why?)
All I can say is the service may be where you live and it may be great, but it is not in Cleveland, Ohio (even though it says it is).. So if you buy this, make sure you can return it, because this item can only be used for one thing and one thing only. Let me tell you, you will be upset if you need to and cannot get your money back, Luckily HH Gregg gave me all money back and I can wait until the covereage improves or until the next great thing comes out (which if you look at Tom Tom site and change the country to the Netherlands, you will see there is already a next generation of Traffic Information service available called HD Traffic) that is probably going to be all over Europe shortly and in the US sometime in the next several years. Who knows.
If the Tom Tom RDS-TMC was $20.00-$30.00, I would have stuck it out, but unfortunately it is not $20.00, unless you can get lucky on ebay (from someone who couldn't return theirs).
I am not stating this is rds-tmc antenna is a bad product, I am stating I was unable to utilize this product in my area and every indication that I had prior to purchasing it was that everything was there for it to work.
As far as my Tom Tom One XLS, it is a great GPS.
39 of 41 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent, works great Jan 28, 2008
By Stephen White
I just bought this at the end of December and received it in early January. So far, it seems to work fine. I generally only drive in the DC Metro area, but it does a good job of informing me of traffic problems. It changes radio stations frequently enough to keep information current. One thing to remember, however, is that only traffic issues that are addressed "on the air" will be displayed, meaning that just because you're in a traffic jam, it doesn't necessarily mean that the RDS receiver should have told you first. One other thing I like is that it displays any ongoing road construction issues.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 The traffic tech. isn't there yet, way overpriced. Skip it. Dec 12, 2007
By Nicolas Kijak
The over the air traffic information just isn't detailed enough for this to be useful. Plus it only works on highways that have sensors in place. For those of you in the Philadelphia area, if this picked up traffic on I-95 it would then just re-route you to US-1, which is always a traffic light nightmare. It would do this because there's no info available on US-1.
The TomTom web site also led me to believe that when it picked up traffic it would pop up a dialog to allow me to reroute, which it didn't do. I had to go into the traffic menu and then select "Minimize traffic delays" to get it to re-route. Maybe it's just this way on the ONE 3rd ed.
This is not to say that it doesn't work. It gets traffic info and shows accidents and areas of trouble but it's not complete. Like others have said, you'll be sitting in bumper to bumper traffic and it will show a clear route.
That said, if this were $20-$30 it would be a nice addition and maybe the traffic info would improve in the future. But at $120+ this is absolutely not worth it.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Worthless Feb 05, 2008
By D. Benson
If you live in or anywhere near Los Angeles, this antenna is absolutely worthless. It doesn't give any accurate traffic data, and updates much too late when it actually does have something. Don't buy this.
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