License Agreement does not load

I am a new trial member and I am attempting to connect to SL for the first time. When the License Agreement window comes up, it says Loading... forever. The "Agree" button is unavailable, and all I can do is click the Quit button. I thought maybe it needed to finish loading everything else first (even though the agreement is presumably just some text), so I waited a while. It never came up and I had to quit. What's going on? I'd really like to try SL.

Thanks!

Also, can anybody tell me how to edit my profile for this forum? Thanks!

At the bottom of every forum page, there is a dropdown, one of the choices should let you edit profile.


As per the original problem, it sounds like you have a dial-up connection. (Or, at least, a slow connection.). You need broadband to be able to play SL. If you do have broadband, maybe it's being split too many ways, or maybe you have a faulty router that is dropping packets.

Please reply with as many specs as possible, including your PC specs and internet connection specs.

Ah, thank you for the tip on the profile. I'm used to vBulletin putting that link in other places, not just in the dropdown.

And yes, I do have dial-up; I was told it was possible to play SL with it but that I could expect it to be slow. I don't have a problem with slow, I just wanted to give it a try. I was really looking forward to it! Thanks anyway.

It's weird, 'cause, I've used SL w/dialup (actually, it was using a satellite phone from a cruise ship -- even worse!), and it was horribly slow. It was basically a chat room. Not useable, since even the chat had a horrible delay.

Since I had already agreed to the TOS when I was on broadband, I didn't have to load it. Maybe you can access a broadband PC just to accept the TOS, and then go back to dialup and try to use it?

I see you live in Washington DC -- I think Verizon has the entire city wired for Broadband WiFi -- maybe you should look into that?

Actually, I probably can do just that! My father-in-law has a cable connection and he lives just a few miles away. I have to go over to his house if I want to connect to There (which I don't very often anymore), so I can install SL over there and give it a try. I'm so glad to know it's possible!

WiFi is something I'm looking into, actually - I'm planning to borrow a wireless card for my laptop and see if I can access anything (I live in a suburban subdivision, so I may be "borrowing" from the neighbors). If there's a connection, I'll buy a card of my own.

LL should really fix this problem. It seems pretty trivial.

Plus, given the proportion of users that actually post this kind of problem to the forums, there may be many dialup users attempting to access SL.

SL *can* be played using a dialup connection, abeat slowly. Sometimes, SL can be the deciding factor in a person actually paying for a broadband connection.

Perhaps the Lindens can warn new users that 'seem' to have dialup connections (using some fuzzy network logic) that they may need to adjust their network settings to play SL correctly.

==Chris

It wouldn't be hard at all to determine a user's connection speed - a request is sent from the server to the user with a simple request: let me know when you get this. The user's computer answers, and the server judges how long it took for the transaction to take place.

I'd love to be able to play SL with dialup from home. I hope they will make this possible.

Personal experience with running SL over dialup is that it doesn't work too well. I can get logged in, but then the connection to the sim I'm in fails, and I can't do anything. Of course, part of this might be because the computer with the modem isn't the one running SL