03-20-2006 12:22
Okay, here's the deal. I have a 1.1meg ADSL link to the internet. I decided to do some speed tests (http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp) and I discovered I was getting a less than steller performance... good for a 512k connection, mediocre for a 1.1meg connection.

Now... I was using an aging ADSL-USB modem, which I have just replaced with an ADSL-Ethernet modem. Wisdom says that an Ethernet connection is more robust, and has less CPU overhead than USB.

First impressions are that this has made a huge difference to SL. My connection indicator is now actively frisky whereas before it was pretty slugish. Packet loss, while still there, also looks a lot better.

Textures really are downloading much, much better now. :D

I've changed nothing else, so this might be a clue as to why some systems just seem to perform better than others in SL.