I was having trouble when I left GPS turned on all the time. I have recently started turning it off when I'm not using it and it starts right up and finds a satellite quickly.

 

Weather works fine for me when I leave GPS off. I only use GPS for maps/navigation.

 

GPS has been crappy for me the past few days, I'm in NY though

 

What I don't get though, is why is it so much faster to connect to GPS than a dedicated GPS device. Our Garmin nuvi takes almost 5 minutes to get a reliable signal outside. My Eris takes anywhere from 10 seconds to maybe a minute if I'm in my basement. They both are just as accurate, and possibly the Eris is better since Google Maps is more up to date (the Garmin is almost 4 years old). Just something that struck me as odd.

 

Have you run your Garmin Updater and got the new firmware? If not, you probably should I noticed we were having lots of lag with ours, went to Garmin.com and updated, It still lags but not NEAR as much.

 

You're probably better off leaving the network positioning on. The coarse position and time it provides can be used to help the GPS acquire a fix faster.

--Mark