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Bigfish14
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Long time away, could use some help running Accusim update

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Hello everyone, I'm just returning to FSX after a long time away. My new build is completed (i7-4770k, GTX 780SC, soon to be o/cd to 4.5Ghz) and I've reinstalled FSX< Acceleration, and my lovely A2A Cub, Spit and C172. All good.

However I've got stuck running the latest Accusim updater (A2A_Update_10_03_15.EXE), which needs to download a total of @200Mb of data to update the 3 planes. When I run it, I am getting a download speed of no more than 10Kbps, so the downloads just time out. I've run speedtests on my internet connection and get at least 5Mbps, so something is seriously wrong. I've re-downloaded, re-unzipped and re-rerun the .exe, same result. I've tried different times of day and night, same result. I've read most of the 40 pages following the Accusim thread, but I can't find a solution, and I apologise for starting a new topic on it. By its nature I can't use a download manager to get the updates.

I've run out of ideas, and I am desperate to update my beautiful planes!

Does anyone have a magic solution?

Best wishes
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Re: Long time away, could use some help running Accusim upda

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I just let mine run and went to get a cup of coffee. Don't give up. Don't know about the timeouts. Mine did not timeout during the download.
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Where about's are you located?

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Re: Long time away, could use some help running Accusim upda

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Hi Lewis, I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I've finally established that the problem is with my excuciatingly rubbish ISP, not my friends at A2A. So I followed Rod's advice ie patience, and managed in the end to get all 3 planes updated, by leaving the PC running for hours. Time to change to optical fibre ISP!!

Can I ask a follow-up question please? I may need to reinstal FSX/A cceleration if I can't figure out how I managed to screw up my UTX North America + GEX instal. Is there any way I can keep my up to date Spit, Cub and C172 and reinstal them into a clean FSX, without having to download all that Accusim data again?

Thanks as always for your support.
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Re: Long time away, could use some help running Accusim upda

Post by Lewis - A2A »

If you back up all the files then yes, you will need to backup quite a bit dotted all over though and I cannot guarantee it will work 100%.

An alternative is to use the offline download type method described in the updater post that enabled you to create mock directories to download into and then back that up. Of course you will have to do this each update though.

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