As long as the hand held has been updated, you can update the 40's through the hand held without neither unit being connected to the computer. The sport dog site was very helpful.
Man I appreciate that, I knew that there was a way to do it but every time I searched on the internet I read sites telling me to plug in the collars. Im gonna see if I cant find the one you are talking about. I thought that was how I did it before but I really couldn't remember......been a while