Green cloud day?

[chrisbreitling]

Tonight has been aweful, nearly all connection attempts to SL has resulted in "Region is not currently available" and if not my avatar never gets materialized and remains in a greenish cloud without any human shape. Anybody having that problem tonight?

[Theresa Tennyson]

Chris, a lot of your problems sound like they're HTTP connection/transmission problems with the servers. Those are the connections that handle lists and, in newer viewers, can be used for textures and inventory loading Only part of the communication the viewer does with the servers is by HTTP, the rest is by UDP, which is used when you're in a sim and communicating back and forth with your location and interacting with in-world objects, which it sounds like you have fewer problems with. Some people have problems on the HTTP side and Linden Lab is working on a viewer that revises how those connections are handled. It's available on this page under "HTTP Project Viewer."

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers

For some people it works better; for some it works worse. It sounds like things can't be much worse for you than what you've got so you might want to give it a try.

This is a JIRA bug tracker describing some of the HTTP issues:

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-25426