# Relic or Data Site Too Far Away

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**Category:** Known Space\
**Created:** [April 6, 2023, 5:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/relic-or-data-site-too-far-away/401527 "2023-04-06T05:35:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mira\_Dorado](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mira_dorado/32/357808_2.png) [@Mira\_Dorado](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mira_Dorado)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 5:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/relic-or-data-site-too-far-away/401527/1 "2023-04-06T05:35:35Z")

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I almost always get a message when trying to start the relic or data site hack that I’m too far away to use my analyzers, but I’m always way closer than 5,000 m, usually just a few hundred meters. Why am getting this message?

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**Author:** ![Cien\_Regis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cien_regis/32/343581_2.png) [@Cien\_Regis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cien_Regis)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/relic-or-data-site-too-far-away/401527/2 "2023-04-06T09:06:24Z")

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Make sure you’ve actually selected/highlighted the can. After you locked into it you may have clicked off it. If that makes sense… 🤷

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**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/relic-or-data-site-too-far-away/401527/3 "2023-04-06T11:08:36Z")

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Yeah, and make sure you’ve approached the can you have target locked.

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**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/relic-or-data-site-too-far-away/401527/4 "2023-04-06T17:18:11Z")

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Not sure if this is the issue you too run into, but:

Usually when I get that message while hacking (and it breaks my hacking attempt…) it means I made the mistake to orbit the can with my microwarp drive still active.

With the extra speed of the microwarp drive it’s really easy to get in range, start hacking, _overshoot the can_ and lose the hacking attempt. The ship simply has too much speed and gets out of range on the other side.

To avoid this I try to turn off my MWD before I start hacking. If the MWD cycle is too long, I will not approach using ‘orbit’ but using ‘approach’ so I bump into the can to lose some speed first, only to ‘orbit’ afterwards.

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**Author:** ![TiberianSun371AlexW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tiberiansun371alexw/32/510819_2.png) [@TiberianSun371AlexW](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/TiberianSun371AlexW)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/relic-or-data-site-too-far-away/401527/5 "2023-04-08T03:17:46Z")

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The most common ways I’ve seen this happen is forgetting to turn off a MWD that I used to reach the can, or selected the wrong one since I preemptively targeted all of them.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/relic-or-data-site-too-far-away/401527/6 "2023-07-07T03:17:50Z")

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