Issues since SL wallet Update

Ever since SL updated my wallet with the 500L weekly allowance for a premium account tonight. I have been experienceing periodic Incredibly massive packet loss Issues in excess of 400% (although I don't know how 400% is possible). Avatars I used to see almost Immediatly are Now Invisible save for thier clothing, and the wierdest thing of all is on several occasions my own Avatar has been changed into a short dumpy woman wearing my outfit!!!!

I would really like to now what the hell is going on, as my SL used to run relatively smoothly. I have done all the standard performance fixes and yet these strange and unprecedented problems occur.

Has this happened to anyone else?
If so how did you fix this, or if not what is going on here if you know please tell me.

Peplexed and Annoyed.

Lately, I've been seeing LOTS of packet loss too. SL used to work fine a few weeks ago.

The packet loss started several updates ago, sometime during 1.10.3 or so I think. At least on this end.

-DB

I started experiencing pretty high packet loss a couple weeks into my experience with SL (I started in mid-May). I've kind of accepted the spikes in packet loss but sometimes they are irritating when I just entered a new area and it happens right at the proper time to completely destroy my caching for 5-15 seconds.

I posted another message about this earlier I think with the technical details of troubleshooting I have done.

I've done some troubleshooting to eliminate the usual culprits - I have ran continuous pings and other data traffic out to other sites with no packet loss while SL is experiencing issues so I know it isn't a last-mile problem with congestion or my ISP oversubscribing links. The same problem also occurs with all three of my PC's and my Mac so I know it's not computer specific.

One of the other things that indicates that there might be some other issue hiding somewhere in there is that it isn't simultanious - I have sat two of my computers side-by-side and they experience packet loss at different times. We commonly run multiple machines where I can see both monitors at the same time (one copy of SL we will run on my TV and I'll have my laptop) and I commonly see they lose data at different times. It probably isn't relevant to the conversation but the packet loss also occurs when one of my under 18 friends is logged into the teen grid (he almost quit a couple times because it was so bad).

The next step that I haven't gotten to yet is to put a sniffer in-line and see if I can get an actual packet capture of the data to see if the network can tell me anything my individual computer isn't..

I'm hoping the issue gets resolved at some point but at this point I've learned to ignore it for the most part except when it is really bad and hope it gets resolved via weekly patch-o-ramas or some unknown inbetween network change :^).