Someone solved some Xgate problems this week by increasing the time-outs in it.

When you use expedition with the optimizer and iridium handset what happens if the connection gets interrupted half way through, using predictwind and the optimizer it picks up the partial download and carries on, does expedition do the same or does it start again from scratch??

Thanks

Mark,
You're smart to be trying this stuff when you have lots of time and w/o an upcoming start putting the pressure on.

I don't know about using Iridium Go but once you have a grib file on the thumb drive you can easily access that in Exp.

Under the Weather tab go to Settings and click on Add File and select your grib file in normal explorer fashion, then click Open then OK and it should be loaded.

Ernie
 

Thanks.

I am not sure there is much/any benefit in using both Optimizer and XGate.

I don't have much experience with XGate and have only ever used it in testing. Luis from XGate is obviously the expert and a good guy too.

XGate and the Redport Optimizer in Exp both use the GMN proxy server.

If you select it on Expedition's internet settings page. They have the YB and Saildocs addresses on their server.

I have just tested with the Optimizer Network option (using an ethernet connection to the Sat port on the optimizer as I don't have a sat phone to test with). It seems to work ok. Obviously you must have the Use proxy option selected.

Reading back on this thread, one useful tip is to increase the timeouts in Expedition instead of relying on the Windows default.

I am looking at how to resume broken downloads, but so far haven't found a nice solution.