This just started happening today.
Textures are taking forever to rez in world. I have tried the regular viewer as well as the snowglobe viewer. Snowglobe seems a little better but still much longer than usual and unacceptable.
Even opening textures in my own inventory takes forever for some of them.
Is anyone else noticing this? My internet connection seems fine, not getting any packet loss, and the sim ping seems ok. I can't figure out what is taking so long and what could be causing it.
Hope this clears itself up - makes it hard to enjoy SL and even harder to build and texture things.