Thread: After much reading and such, I still can not make a clear cut decision on which to go

Originally Posted by rnvinc

2 units cannot share a map card..this is Navionics way of making you buy 2 cards...more money for them....

Thank rnvinc, can you tell me the advantages or disadvantage of interlink of ethernet or vice versa ??


thanks

Originally Posted by rnvinc

2 units cannot share a map card..this is Navionics way of making you buy 2 cards...more money for them....

And that is plain WRONG! You pay for license for a map card you should be able to use it on as many devices as you like. IMO

Originally Posted by maachuu

Thank rnvinc, can you tell me the advantages or disadvantage of interlink of ethernet or vice versa ??


thanks

Interlink allows sharing waypoints, routes, and tracks....but requires extra interlink module and cables...

Ethernet allows sharing waypoints, routes, tracks, 2d sonar, DI images (as long as both units are DI capable) and SI images (as long as both units are SI capable)...requires only a cable (extra module "interlink" not needed).

One point to remember with the above statements with the DI sharing over ethernet is (Down Imaging from Side Imaging) and (DownImaging) are two different technologies and aren’t compatible over Ethernet.

Doug explains this pretty well here...http://www.crappie.com/crappie/fishi...formation.html

Originally Posted by FroggerZack

And that is plain WRONG! You pay for license for a map card you should be able to use it on as many devices as you like. IMO

I agree... for the amount of money one has to pay for these cards...

Navionics is just like any other business...they want as much of your money that they can squeeze out of you....

Originally Posted by rnvinc

Interlink allows sharing waypoints, routes, and tracks....but requires extra interlink module and cables...

Ethernet allows sharing waypoints, routes, tracks, 2d sonar, DI images (as long as both units are DI capable) and SI images (as long as both units are SI capable)...requires only a cable (extra module "interlink" not needed).

One point to remember with the above statements with the DI sharing over ethernet is (Down Imaging from Side Imaging) and (DownImaging) are two different technologies and aren’t compatible over Ethernet.

Doug explains this pretty well here...http://www.crappie.com/crappie/fishi...formation.html

Thank rnvinc, I thought I had saw something about that somewhere, looks like if I read it right, I can have 2d and DI on both units, the units being 898si and 788ci HD DI, is that correct ??

and also is this available now or is there some wait on something to do with software ??

thanks

Originally Posted by rnvinc

Interlink allows sharing waypoints, routes, and tracks....but requires extra interlink module and cables...

The interlink module comes with cables, a ten footer and a twenty footer.

But If I were buying new right now, I wouldn't get interlink. I'd go ahead and get an ethernet cable and wait til the ethernet update comes out.

That's with the 788 HD DI, not the 788ci correct? I don't think the non-DI units have a cable jack.

Originally Posted by maachuu

Thank rnvinc, I thought I had saw something about that somewhere, looks like if I read it right, I can have 2d and DI on both units, the units being 898si and 788ci HD DI, is that correct ??

and also is this available now or is there some wait on something to do with software ??

thanks

This is from doug's post...The DownImaging that comes from a Side Imaging Unit will not transfer via Ethernet to a DI unit. For example if I hook up a 1198 and 788ci HD DI unit the only information they can share is the 200kHz Downlooking sonar. No DownImaging information will be shared.

I would assume this to be true for your 898 also...

Because the 898 DI data is derived from the SI data (DI data is from the SI crystals)

DI in the 788ci HD DI (DI data is from DI dedicated crystals)

Therefore your 788ci HD DI cannot read the DI (or SI) from the 898