EQEmulator won't update?

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Friend is trying to reinstall Everquest on his new computer. He is up to the part of updating EQEmulator to access serverlist, etc. EQEmulator asks to update (yes, he ran it as administrator) and begins to update but it eventually just stops and it really doesn't move (45 minutes tested). Any reason why this would happen, anyone know any fixes?
He went ahead and changed the eqhost.txt to eqemulator.net[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]ort 5998, etc. Still nothing before or after.