Silently dropping out of SL

For about a week now I've been being silently disconnected several times a day.
I'll be editing a script, or just looking around, and suddenly everything will just stop responding. Then I look at the little bandwidth meter and notice it's at 0.

It happens irrespective of what sim I'm in.

My home network topology has not changed in months, and none of my other connections die, just SL.

I wrote it off for a few days, but now it's becoming really frustrating; I've edited a script a couple of times, closed the script window, waited for it to run; nothing -- then I realize it's happened AGAIN and all of my changes have disappeared into the bit bucket.

Pedro -

Have you called your Cable/DSL provider? It may be that they recently changed some hardware; and that's causing your problem. I'd check on this, as your symptoms mirror mine back when I had a problem with my router at home - with the udp stream getting hung-up or cut-off after 5 - 10 minutes. No warning, no notice, just *bam*.

As a side note: I do all of my serious scripting on my PC, then copy-paste it into the editor window in SL when I'm ready to run/debug it. I highly recommend doing this because it not only gets around problems like the one you're seeing; but it also provides a backup on BOTH your PC and the SL Grid - in case one or the other ever gets wiped out.

Best of luck on this, take care,

--Noel "HB" Wade
(Tread Whiplash)

I think I'm just an idiot.

I re-checked my network settings and noticed that my gateway was set to the wrong box on my LAN -- causing me to be NATed an extra time. I fixed it, and am hoping that will eliminate my problem. I think the UDP timeout was set ultra-low (a few minutes-ish) and that was what was killing me.

When I get my replacement PC at the office I"m going to put it on a switch to bypass the nortel router (for Sabre, good stuff, scary routers). I kept getting silently disconned for awhile and this might help it.

Now to improve the command-latency on my home DSL line.

how do ya do that? I'm haveing the same troubles