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Board » Technical Support » cannot download the weather map

So cannot even get started. Apparently I am stuck in Ireland drinking beer. My son says he can see me there.

Looked for clues on the websites but none work. Others obviously have the same problem

http://www.sailonline.org/windy/run/147/#

just sits there like a wet sheep
Hi

Cleaning the cache of the browser helps out most commen problems with no display. Check if you have a good version of flash installed (not needed if it was ok before).

We have some cases of people behind a proxy-server that experiencing problems.

Let us know if this helps, sorry to be so technical.
I am a ex-admin of SOL who joins in from time to time.
Still stuck in the pub.

Flash upgraded and the other one.
Cache cleaned.
Tried IE and Firefox.
Closed firewall (and reopened it).
Turned modem thing off and on.
Swore at the computer.

First time this sort of thing has happened.

Strange
So sailonline did work before you had this problem?
You have sailed in other races without issues?

Real strange I will see what other tips I can give.
I am a ex-admin of SOL who joins in from time to time.
Yup. It is strange. Mind you, I am behind the Great China Firewall, but it lets me into the website http://www.sailonline.org/windy/run/147/# and I get the screen with three icons on the left top, and the message at the bottom, "waiting to download the weather map".

If it was the Great Chinese Firewall, they would not let me into the website at all, never mind make posts..

I just registered on http://www.sailonline.org/windy/run/148/# but the same thing. I have no problem with the Volvo race and finished 1,000,000th or something.

Real odd, I will pass this on to one of the other guys, maybe he has some tips or tricks you can try.
I am a ex-admin of SOL who joins in from time to time.
If you are in China it's probably proxy servers that is in some way confusing our servers....

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