SabrinaRE

Greetings, I got to dig up this old thread today for I am experiencing a very similar (if not same) problem. I was on SL for over 4 years now, but only since I am using the "next generation" Clients, I am having the following problem... The Problem ist not exactly reproducable, but it appears much to frequently, to be ignored. It seems to be happening more often, if I am in real crowded areas or heavily prim-ed sims. The effect experienced is this: - my firefox browser (always running on my secondary screen) will refuse to connect to any website. This is not limited to SL-sites, but also affects general news sites, both local and international, gaming sites... in short... ALL sites. - at that time, SL will refuse to load anything that is not already loaded. I can continue to chat just fine. I can move around the sim I am currently on. I can even take of clothes and accessories and put them back on. - when SL is however forced to load anything not from cache but from the web, it will eventually crash with the usual "View IM and Chat" or "Quit" message. - Even after closing the client in this state, my computer refuses any kind of connection to other websites. Firefox will always time out, games will claim there is no internet connection, SL claims the "oops, something unexpected happened". - a simple PING however will still work and show a completely lagfree low-level connection to the WWW (pinging 150ms from central europe to NY and similar). The only way I found to fix this, is resetting my router... but having to do that once per hour on average is rather disturbing... especially as you cannot start any serious roleplaying, if you can expect to get dropped out any minute. To me, it seems like SL is somehow blocking the higher layers of the OSITP model. The problem arises with Firestorm, Phoenix and the original SL client, so I suspect the issue to be somewhat connected to the general handling of data transfer. Switching back to the very old viewer is not an option after having dropped countless L$ into Mesh-clothing and accessory. Sincerely, Sabrina