Lag Levels

found some place to rent (YAY) but not sure if i want to commit until i decipher the following:

in your experiences, including sim level (please note 3-5 in your reply) in terms of elevation, what levels seem to generate the least amount of lag?

in my experience, 0-50m was pretty laggy, but 100m-200m was worse!

200-450 was mediocre, and obvisouly, the higher you go the better it gets. however, at point 650m or so, it gets laggy again for about 50m.

now, the place i like is mostly sky stuff. if everone is "up there", is that just relocating the lag, or does it remain relatively lag free because it is farther away from the ground textures?

Higher I tend to get more fps but if I have company with lot of prim heavy flexible skirts,etc or if their lot of prims around me even below 300m it goes down regardless if I am at 500 to 600m

I don't think there's any inherent difference in lag at various heights. It's just that there tends to be more stuff near the ground.

If you're on a sim with everything near ground level and nothing up high, lag - talking texture/object download time and rendering times here - should decrease as you go higher.

If it's the skybox sim where everybody builds up high and nobody builds on the ground, it should be less laggy near the ground.

If it's that the sim is taking a beating for some other reason - rogue physical objects or hungry scripts - then the whole sim lags regardless of where you are on it.

all depends on how much appears in your draw distance, this sort of lag is more pc dependent the actuall server lag

Ugh