[wludavid]

I bought a Garmin i5 a couple weeks ago. I took the advice of some on this forum and stuck with the Garmin brand, and the i5 was in my price range.

Well now I'm having doubts about it, but I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong. The routes it calculates are terrible. Playing around with it and having it take me places I'm familiar with, it NEVER takes the best route. Not once. Also, it avoids interstates like the plague. I live about 1.5 miles from a major interstate, and driving home the other day, it tried to tell me to get off the highway 4 exits before the best one. And as I passed each exit, it would tell me to take that one, and then say "recalculating" after each one. It's become a joke in between my girlfriend and me to see how many times *****ing Betty will recalculate for a simple jaunt down I-66.

On one hand, I really only need this when I'm going to places I've never been before, or between two places where I usually dpn't travel. So maybe I shouldn't care if it takes the absolute best route in those cases.

On the other hand, I expected more from Garmin, even in one of their entry-level GPS.