This is awful

[jocoyn]

I bought a new fast 64 bit computer in part to help me download maps faster and run multiple programs simultaneously. It is on Vista. 

I keep getting "difficulty contacting servers messages even though I have enabled firewall acess. I don't think I use a proxy server = nothing else has asked for that and everything else is screaming fast I have zero problems watching tv and movies without discernable buffering - much faster than on my old slow xp computer.  I am at a loss. It keeps disabling downloading on me. I cannot download much of anything making the program worthless

What the heck is going on?

[ScottMorris]

Hi,

It looks like Terraserver is having issues right now.  Sorry it coincided with your new computer.  I noticed I was having issues a couple hours ago and was about to post about it.

Thanks for the patience.

[jocoyn]

It was working better this am. Surprisingly not much faster than my old computer so I gather the terraserver servers are the bottleneck. 

Ah well I had to get another computer anyway because it was on my work computer and I knew that could not be a permanent solution.

[jocoyn]

Ok - I see this is an ongong issue........it is happening again this morning.

[ScottMorris]

Yep, still struggling for me too.

[ScottMorris]

Terraserver is handing out tiles fast now, as of 10am PDT.