January 6, 200422 yr HiI know you're busy with other things, but I've not been able to download anything for the past 24 hours now for WxRE V1.91 on FS2K2 (can't afford a new computer for FS9). Keep getting the Timeout/Error message. Any help/ideas much appreciated.Best regards!Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
January 6, 200422 yr Gavin,If users post 'em we'll answer them. All our products are equally important!I just fired up wxRE and FS04 and got a solid download(1854z). Has anything changed in your Internet connection? Firewall? Anti-virus?Keep us up to date!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support
January 7, 200422 yr Author JimThanks for getting back to me. I've made no changes to my firewall or anti-virus program. Norton internet security 2003. No changes have been made to my internet connection as far as I know and all sites are available as usual without any probs. I started to download again today, about 1 hour ago, and got as far as downloading Today's winds (better than the last 2 days when it just timed-out immediately) and then it just seems to get stuck. So I checked the Low bandwidth downloads box(which I've never used before) and get the same problem. I'm going to try again for the third time now, but it's now looking like 72 hrs without access. Though to be fair, maybe it'd work when I'm at work :-)Hope there's something you can do/advise.Best regards!Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
January 7, 200422 yr Author JimSorry about that first, unpleasant smiley-face. That was a typo. It should've been a bracket.Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
January 7, 200422 yr Author JimIt was 3rd time unlucky. Same problem. Tried downloading the VATSIM Metars (never done that before). Exactly the same problem. So after 1hr 45 mins trying it's time to give up for today.Laters!Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
January 7, 200422 yr I am having the same problems.And I have only jusy bought ActiveSky! Perhaps i will send it back for a refund if its this unreliable.Keith
January 7, 200422 yr Keith,Sorry you are having trouble. I know it must be frustrating for a new user. Others can pipe in here, but usually the NOAA servers are quite reliable. In the past we have had very few outages such as this. Please keep in mind that weather processing is still taking place, and the only thing missing is winds aloft data. We all hope things will be working again soon.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support
January 8, 200422 yr Author JimIt's 12:51CET and I just got a full download! Hopefully it's 'better' again.Thanks!Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
January 8, 200422 yr Author Oh dear. I spoke to soon. It didn't download any winds and when I tried to run WxRE it told me to try to download again. Never seen that before. Is this a NOAA problem?Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
January 8, 200422 yr wxRE gets winds aloft data from here:http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/Site seems to be down at the moment, guess that explains it.Miltos
January 8, 200422 yr Just found this on the page at NOAA about this problem"As of January 7, 2004 FSL Realtime Weather Products are temporarily unavailable. It is expected that they will return next week. ":(
January 8, 200422 yr Author GentsThanks for those replies. That seems to be the problem then. Next week eh? Well I don't pay taxes in the US so can't really complain can I?Gavin Gavin Barbara Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)
January 8, 200422 yr You guys are all correct! Damian looked into this and discovered the same thing. We will be watching this!!JimActiveSky Support
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