can't move or won't stop???

I notices alot in SL that when I stop my avatar i'll be unable to move. however i am able to do a 360 but sometimes i'll stop in notice my Alt keeps move...though wall in soon off the map. I have yet to discover why it's doing this. it's not my driver or anything inside my laptop. I know it not my wifi which I know wifi is not the best choose but oh well. I can't get an wired connection.

I somewhat have the same problem with the ps3 on GTA4 but never on my Xbox 360 or wii plus their a lot farther from the wifi box. plus I already tired resetting things such as the SL setting and power off power on on my wifi.

I have an HP pavilion entertainment Notebook PC designed for your life "hmm I guess not my second life" >.> anyway dual core mobile processor home premium vista 250GB (5400 rpm) harddrive. ATI Radeon HD 3200 and WiFi Certified

Sluggish movement and/or infinite movement is caused by one thing, network lag. Somewhere between your computer and the SL servers, the signal to start or stop walking is either getting lost or is taking too long to be delivered.

It may well be your wireless that is the issue. It could also be your network card or your modem or your router or your ISP or literally any of the Interenet hubs between you and SL.

The first thing to take a look at is the Packet Loss and Ping Sim numbers in the SL Statistics Bar (ctrl-shift-1). Packet Loss should read zero, and Ping Sim should be around 100ms or less. Anything over 150ms or so, and you'll begin to notice lag. I'm guessing the number you've got is going to be significantly higher than that.

The first thing to try is to reset your modem and your router, and restart your computer. If the problem persists after that, the next thing I'd do is see if the wireless is the issue. Try using a wired connection. If plugging in doesn't solve the issue, then try updating your network card drivers.

If the problem is still happening, and you're certain the cause is not on your end, then try running a traceroute, to see where on the Internet the bottleneck is. You can find the URL of the sim you're on in Help -> About Second Life. It will say something like sim4145.agni.lindenlab.com. (That's my sim, actually.) Open a command prompt, and then type the word "tracert" without the quotes, and then the URL.

The first thing it will show you is how long it takes to ping your router. That should be like 1ms. Next you'll see your modem. After that will be your ISP's hubs and servers. Then you'll see more generalized Internet hubs and servers, such as Level3 stuff. After that, you'll see the Linden Lab location where the sim server is housed, and finally the sim server itself.

All the numbers should be in the tens of miliseconds. If anything is in the hundreds or thousands, then you know that's where the problem is. For example, I'm currently pinging my sim (Indigo) a little more slowly than usual. I normally get around 70-100ms or so, but today it's hovering around 150. Traceroute shows me there's a bit of a slowdown happening at one of Lelvel3's Dallas facilities. Nothing's to be done but wait for them to straighten it out.


Anyway, so you know, the reason you can do a 360 is because camera movement is entirely local. The server doesn't know or care where you're looking, so there's no networking involved there. It does have to know and care where your avatar is physically located, though, which is why you're having trouble walking.

My answer is not quite as technical as the last one, but I can tell you what has worked for me. I also run SL on a laptop, and used to have the same problem you are describing. Someone suggested to me that it had to do with my computer overheating. I guess SL makes things work a little harder. Anyhow, I bought this fan to put under my computer, and I don't experience that problems anymore. Basically, it is a flat surface with a fan in the center, and my computer sits on top of it. The fan runs when the unit is plugged into a USB port on my computer. I think I paid about $20 for the whole thing.

It very well could be something technical, but in my case, it was just my computer overheating. I hope this helps you.

I never had so much lag before... my ping was over 5000 O.O but it's mostly at 94...plus I've tried all the restarting modem already. it don't work. why is it that I can play any online game but SL. it's rare for me 2 lag in Combat arms. or is it cause games like flyff and Combat arms r download games in not like runescape where it loads as I play?

you do have a point. when my laptop get hot it runs a little slower but I know for a fact it's not the heat alone?

When you play a game like Combat Arms, the entire world resides on your hard drive. The only information streamed back and forth are tiny pieces of data, describing things like where the characters are, what everyone's doing, etc. SL is totally different. Because all the content is user-created, none of it can pre-exist on your local hard drive. Literally everything is streamed. This is why SL uses so much more bandwidth and computing resources than games do. The amount of information bounced back and forth is gigantic.

This is also why the SL viewer is only about a 20MB download, while the Combat Arms game installation is 100 times that size, at 2GB. A huge portion of that installation is content. The actual game program itself is relatively tiny.

Runescape is somewhere in between. The whole game is streamed to you, but the content is optimized for that purpose, by professionals who know what they're doing. SL content, on the other hand, is almost never well optimized. Also Runescape is using some different technologies than SL is for the actual streaming itself.