Teleporting, Flying. Can't go anywhere

Something odd has been happening to be for the past 45 minutes or so. I can't go anywhere. Once I TP there I can't move and only see ocean. I logout and return to the location and I can move and see things, but sometimes it has taken 2 relogs for this to happen. When I TP to a location, like home, all I see is ocean and the name of the last location I was at. When I relog, I am at the location I teleported to prior to relogging.

What worked for me when I was stuck like that, was changing my login preferences from "Last location" to "home", and instead of going back to the stuck location, I ended back up at home when I first log in.

Yes, I know how to do that. Thats not the problem. I am getting stuck everywhere, not just a few places. This has been happening off and on for a couple weeks, but today is intolerable.

I think that new (I think 2nd hand) asset server is acting up again..

I have in the last 2 days 20+ failed tps (ocean view), more then I count lost attachment then either bounce when typing to land, or just fly thru everything...many time can't even fly to next zone as does not see the I went to the new server...getting fustrated, but been thru this before.

So think that updated (HA!!) asset server is still acting up...

It is still happening and the whole world it lagged to freaking death.

Whew, here I go again... ;^)

Are you using wireless networking? If so, have you tried using a direct wired connection? Also, are you using any internet security or firewall software? If so, have you tried disabling it to see if it is interfering with Second Life access?

No. Nothing on my network has changed at all. This has been happening off and off for 2 weeks and today it happens with almost every teleport. Currently I just teleported from Beverly Hills to my house it says my house name/Beverly hills, and I in oblivion. I know I can't be the only person, and Mike is reporting the same problem and every Sim is dog slow.

Same thing has been happening to me for the last couple of days. I tp somewhere and go nowhere and then shortly thereafter I find myself over the ocean or I try relogging and still find myself in the same sim. If I relog a couple of times i do finally get home.

Ditto. Lag is so bad the past few days that i'm totally stuck every couple of minutes for at least a minute. Like Eboni said you can't tp anywhere without getting stuck in oblivion and having to relog. Just a few mins ago the entire game crashed for me. I have done nothing differently with my computer or it's connections. I have had my cable company check my modem and it's running fine. But it is almost to the point where I can't play the game at all because of the lag issue. And no, it doesn't matter where I am or what I'm doing, there's tremendous lag. And other ppl are reporting the same problem. Something needs to be done and very soon!

Same thing for me - I signed out eventually, I got tired of relogging.

This reminds me of when you call your cable company because your cable modem is out, and the ask you what operating system you have, make you go through all kinds of machinations, just to eventually find out that the network is having a problem and it is nothing to do with the customer at all. These types of problems have been ongoing, and appear out of nowhere - generally several hours later, you finally report asset server problems. While certainly all of the things you are asking would be legit if this happened all the time to the customer or they had no access, it seems like a wild goose chase when it just suddenly starts occuring to a large group of people in SL.

this has been happening to me 9 times out of 10 since 1.5.9.

Edited to elaborate: I've reported it at least a dozen times. Never had a response. But then I havent had a response to the last several dozen bug reports I've filed. In fact, I'm often not even getting the automated responses any more.

Oh, and to anyone trotting out the usual 'are you using a firewall/what have you changed...' questions, wrap your head round this one: Kris Ritter is fuckered... on that account I cannot tp, cross sim borders, nothing. My alts are fine. So it ain't nothing at my end, capiche? And no, I won't be turning off my firewall any time soon. It's served me faithfully for far longer than I've been in SL, and I know which is the more important if it comes down to a choice.

Does it still happen when you're not wearing any attachments Kritter?
As a general rule, avoid attachments like the plague. You can get stuck between sims wearing as little as a single scripted prim.

Yup. It happens if I go naked. Honestly

Without ANY attachments, it prolly happens 7/10 times. With attachments its 9/10 times. For months now I've been used to this. For me to even cross from one sim to another, I have to literally go into inventory and remove several items, sometimes change outfits, walk across the sim border, decide if I'm still 'onworld', then redress my attachments and clothes. Fun, huh?

Tho I do have one particular attachment, my ao, which absolutely refuses to cross a sim border or tp with me. I have no idea why. I have variously tried removing all anims and scripts from the prim and replacing them into a new prim, and have taken all contents out and put them back one by one to try and ascertain if it's a particular anim or script, or combination. The problem is, since I can't cross a sim border without needing to relog anyway, it's pretty hard to tell!

hmm. connection to the forums or the forums has gone down while I'm trying to edit this post. pfft.

Come on Lee, while there's a tiny possibility that a firewall might be acting up, do you realise how dangerous it can be to disable a firewall on a windows PC in 2005?

What puzzles me is why some firewalls that have a history of flaring up problems (like Norton) are used, when there a plethora of great free ones that accomodate SL much better. I use Sygate (the personal edition) and it's so elegant and easy to set up and run. First time I ran SL, it asked me if I wanted to allow traffic through, and I declared "YES!" Needless to say, I've never had a problem with Sygate and SL. Quite hassle-free and transparent as they say.

I don't believe it is firewall related, as an experiment, I did disable mine for about 20 min, and guess what! I still couldn't tp anywhere without getting stuck, textures took forever to load if at all, and man the ghosting. I was in a simm and counted no less than 12 ghosts stuck in midflight. Oh, and it wasn't just me, my GF is having the exact same problems.

Get a good anti-virus and ad-scanner now...

Let me recommend (as free) Grisoft AVG and either (or both of) SpyBot S&D, Lavasoft Adaware.

And I hope you were fortunate enough to survive intact.

For the record, I use a combination of hardware (NetGear) and software (ZoneAlarm) firewalls, and have never had a problem with SL, at least not firewall related. All problems I've had that couldn't be traced directly to LL were routing issues... [note: obvious things like hardware failure at my end excluded]

Yes, just to add my recent experiences to the list.

Over the last few days I have been suffering intermittently from very low frame rates in certain sims (and you try playing the game with 0.4 fps). On top of this things have been taking an extraordinarily long time to rez.

Haven't had any tp problems, but the problems I have been experiencing have been causing sl to be less a pleasure than a chore lately.

I use a hardware firewall on my router at home and run Norton Antivirus. That's all I need. My computer's clean through several scans, and there's no unusual network activity (because it's all getting blocked at the router, and never reaches my machine).

It's not a tiny possibility the firewall's acting up. It's a very significant likelyhood. In the past two months (and exponentially so in the last week), connection problems directly caused by Norton Internet Security and its kin has become a top support case, edging out the long-standing champion of "crash issues caused by incompatible graphics cards".

On top of this, pretty much everyone I've spoken to in the last few days that consistently gets disconnected in 3-5 minutes has Norton Internet Security installed.

I know security's important to everyone. It's just so much harder for me to try to diagnose connection issues when a resident has a program installed designed to interfere with Second Life.

Many of these programs block any non-web traffic they deems unusual; lock down programs of their own volition, react to executable changes (i.e. updates), block programs previously set to "trusted", and fail to notify the user of anything they've done under default settings. Many residents could not get their program to stop interfering with Second Life until they completely uninstalled it.

It's a tough situation. I can't tell you what you should and shouldn't have installed on your computer. All I can suggest is that having Norton Internet Security installed makes it very difficult for us to diagnose any connection issues with any degree of reliability.

Thanks Siobhan, but I allready run AVG and have SBS&D as well as Pest Patrol. Also I am behind a NAT on my router as well as zone alarm. I did do an imediate scan afterwards, and all clean. But I agree, never run without a firewall, I just had to know though. The problems have just seemed to pop up as of the last few days, and I do know my settings are correct on both the router and firewall.

Also check the Windows Firewall; there may have been a Windows System Update in the last few days that turned it back on.