What does Timed Out mean when trying to get the weather forecast?
‘Timed Out’ is a general computer term which means that two computers or devices have not been able to establish communications with each other in a pre-set amount of time. After you select the forecast(s) to retrieve and then click on ‘Get Forecast’, a command is sent to your Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) computer asking it to connect to our computer and get the file containing the forecast data (this a bit of a simplification but good enough for our purposes here!). If the two computers cannot establish and maintain communications then a ‘Time Out’ error occurs. In the case of retrieving the forecast this usually means that your ISP’s computer is very busy and could not finish servicing your request within the alloted time. Try again later is usually the solution, but if the problem continues please contact us.
