Smoothy Schmooz

Thanks for all the responses. I really do understand that I am not in the optimal place for getting a rich connection to the SL servers. I also am well educated on the difference between being in America and using SL and being here in China doing the same. I have had all of these experiences first hand. My concern was that I had SL running here for two years with just the minimal, expected problems till now. I really just needed to know if there was something in the system that caused this change or something that is with my connection and, from your responses, it appears to be a connection change at my end. Unfortunately, this will be unresolvable since I don't speak the same language as my cable provider nor can get around the Chinese internet limitations. . :matte-motes-frown: Thanks again for all of your help At least I can stay in touch with my SL friends on this forum...

So, if I understand, you are saying that even though I have never had any problem with SL on the connection I am running, it may be due to the connection I have now. I have used the same connection for two years, but according to your input, maybe there was a change in my internet connection here? I was hoping that wasn't the case because there is really nothing I can do about that except to say goodbye to my second life. I was hoping for some kind of way I could fix this on my computer or something that was happening from the source that was making this happen. I am not happy about this, but thanks for your reply anyways...

I am an avid user of Second Life and I am an American currently living in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China and find it comforting that I can go to a place where I can still converse in English. Just the past few days, I have been having problems with the application. I am able to log on, but that's as far as I get. Usually I appear as that crazy puff of smoke and my home region is only partially loaded missing big chunks of land. Some times I am logged into some dark underwater place although the toolbar clearly says I am in my home region, Isere. When I do arrive in my home region, I cannot get my avatar to rez and eventually will get the error messages "Failed to find clothing named XXX in database" for each piece of clothing that my avatar should be wearing (if it were to rez). I tried on both my Mac and my PC and both are giving the same results (each run SL fine up till now and each cover the system requirements). It could be the "Great Firewall Of China" which blocks many online websites, but I have never had this problem in the previous two years that I have been here and the fact that can logon says that the connection is happening. I also tried emptying my cache and even tried a different version of SL (the current BETA version) to no avail. Please help me! I don't want to be without my second life. Smoothy