Anyone successfully playing SL on a wireless laptop?

[Evangeline Arcadia]

I'm having a lot of problems using scripts and building (texuring mainly) and think it might be because I'm on a wireless laptop. Has anyone got any tips?

[Drake1 Nightfire]

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Evangeline Arcadia wrote:

I'm having a lot of problems using scripts and building (textureing mainly) and think it might be because I'm on a wireless laptop. Has anyone got any tips?

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My wife has no issue on her wireless laptop.. What are your specs? If you go into Help>about(viewer name) and copy paste that here it would help. Also, don't have your bandwidth higher than 500, turn down your draw distance, graphics settings, and all that unless you are using them. Scripting and building don't need high graphics settings unless you are taking pictures.

[PeterCanessa Oh]

As explained in your other thread about this wifi is inherently unpredictable.  Just moving to a different part of the room could give you a great signal but a bad connection is always going to give you trouble in SL.  With a good signal, wifi is fine - just don't assume you'll be able to GET a good signal wherever you happen to be.

[Storm Clarence]

What router are you using?  It should be a fairly new router.  If you are using a Cisco (Linksys) router access the QoS under Application and Gaming (wireless) and flip the bit to disable WMM (the default is 'enable'.)  You will recognize huge improvements in just about everything (wireless) you do.   

If you need assistance post your question(s) here.

[Phil Deakins]

In the other thread, you mentioned that you crash even when stretching an object. I remember from years ago that I would silently crash when editing an object, including moving it, stretching it, etc. I could be happily working on it for half an hour after I'd silently been disconnected, but I wouldn't know until I started to move my avatar - and couldn't. None of my editing was saved, of course, because I hadn't been connected for ages.

I doubt that that will provide any clues but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

[Kelli May]

SL is especially sensitive to interrupted connections and jitter, and running on wifi increases the chance of these problems. Within SL, building/editing, driving a vehicle and region crossings are all especially vulnerable to disruption. Even on a wire connection, editing can be incredibly frustrating if the connection is bad enough.

I've used SL for hours at a time on a wireless tablet with no significant problems, but all I was doing was chatting & socialising within one sim. I suspect I wouldn't have much fun trying to build and edit under the same conditions.

[ArchTx Edo]

All I have every used in SL has been a wireless laptop, a Mac of one type or another.  I'm currently using a 2011 MacBook Pro.  

I have built hundreds of creations on my laptops while connected with WiFi,  I had experienced many quirks but still managed OK.  If your machine specs meet the minimum standards recommended by SL you should be OK.

[Artorius Constantine]

I'm on Verizon wireless in the Tahoe National Forest. A hot spot device feeding my laptop.

I have to go almost 3 miles to get a signal and sometimes building is a PITA. Especially loading contents of large props. I turned my cache way up, my framerate down, and work way up in the sky on a plain platform. Seems to help.

I'm glad to be able to walk around at all way out here! My biggest issue is battery life. I get 2 hours tops in world before I have to crank up the generator. Usually I take the bike up and work on a boulder.

 

[Evangeline Arcadia]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'm on broadband and generally have no connection problems - just SL. Strange thing is I'm  also wireless on a desktop PC (which is a lower spect than the laptop) and have no problems in SL on that.

I've got round the building problem by making adjustments numerically (especially when scaling). But I'm still having major problems opening and editing scripts. I've tried various SL settings adjustments. I'm wondering now if a different viewer might help. I can't see how it would but you never know. Does anyone have any suggestions?