MalachaiZolotov

You may have your system looking for a proxy server--basically another Internet server to route your connection to Second Life through--when in truth you don't need one. Try the following. 1. Click on Me, on the far left of the menu bar at the top left of your screen. 2. On the Me menu, click Preferences. 3. On the Preferences menu, click Setup. 4. At the bottom of the Setp window, you'll see "Proxy Settings:" and then a button marked"Adjust proxy settings" Clixk on that button. 5. On the resulting Proxy Settings wndow, make sure that nothing has a check mark next to it. Click off any check marks that you see. The only exception is at the bottom, under Other HTTP traffic proxy. Under that, the prompt "Do not proxy" should have a marker next to it. On my screen, it looks like a dot. 6. Click OK, and then restart Second Life. This worked for me. I had somehow caused the problem by clicking on "Use HTTP proxy for Web pages" on the Proxy Settings window, probably while poking around to see what did what. I'm not very computer-literate, so I hope all this makes sense to whoever needs it. Malachai Zolotov