i honestly dont know what to tell ya ive never had that issue.

Holy smokes, I haven't used SL in so long I don't even, hnnng.

Though, I have an idea. You said you're using Firestorm? Why not try the latest Vanilla version, and see if the same problem occurs there? Then you'll know if it's the service, or if there's a bug in your player of choice, which I recall being a pretty common thing.

That sounds really bizarre. I would probably try it with a different client, see if you get the same effect. I'd probably be tempted to clear out all the caches too which should be under preferences, that's about the only things I can think of.

mysterious bug list ya got there, try a different viewer and make sure ya dump all your caches. Also if ya have too many inventory items that would mess with things but that'd take ALOT of items. x.x

they been changing updating it so much and all the mods and shapes, that there so many now it cause a complete hyper LAG, so all I can say Croc don't go on SL anymore there too much shapes on to cause lots of lag loading that take up all your internet connection and pulls it to a stop.
they might fix it or not but I not use SL your choice.

Skype, I just discovered recently, is a peer-to-peer service, which means it uses your internet connection to route other peoples' calls, even when you're not using it. I've actually seen all that additional traffic kill my connection to anything else (including updates to games, browsing the web, etc.). If Skype is still working, that makes it an even more likely suspect, because it knows how to get out of its own way.

Next time this happens, shut down skype altogether and see if things improve.

Microsoft also has tools called the SysInternals Suite which you can download, and it includes a tool called TCPView, which lets you see all the network connections of all software running on your system, including watching how much traffic is flowing over each connection. You can use that to see if you have a bandwidth hog (that's what turned me on to the Skype issue about a week ago, then I did a web search and was floored to learn what Skype was doing).

It's been ages since I've been on Second Life so I don't know.

Haven't used SL in forever. Should probably start though, if it wasn't for this error your talking about. I'm skeptical now.

That's pretty darn weird!

Also, I appologize for never making you a Roboticizer! I keep regretting it but you know, life happens, and I don't know if I ever said anything about it since years ago...

People still use Second Life?

You say chat still works, can you just send messages or do you receive messages as well?

By "browsers not loading", do you mean they fail to start up, or fail to load webpages?

From what I can tell from a couple searches, the Second Life netcode involves one server per Region, and a cluster of storage servers for objects. If you're having trouble receiving new level data and object data, but can still move around within your current region and talk with people within it, it sounds like for some reason you're having trouble sustaining multiple connections simultaneously.

This could be caused by a huge number of problems, but here's a couple of things you can try:

* Make sure Windows Firewall is turned off. If you have any other firewall software, try turning it off and see if it fixes the problem.

* Next time it happens, try running "ipconfig -flushdns" in command prompt. If this fixes it, try changing your DNS provider to Google. (Instructions here: https://developers.google.com/speed.....dns/docs/using )

* Contact your ISP and ask if they have any network throttling policies. Some torrent throttling software can give false positives in similar circumstances.

SL takes a lot of bandwidth, so when you close it, it's probably still closing and using bandwidth in the background. Maybe try altering how much bandwidth it should take up. If you have good connection, set it to 1500 max. That's what I've read. And maybe you can delete or alter your cache.

Just a few guesses on my part.

Uninstall every Viewer Use Firestorm thats what id id to fix that problem

I use Second Life a hell of a lot, but I've never personally come across that problem

Make sure your internet connection is set to stay connected to the same source rather than to connect to the strongest source.

What client are you using? I have all sorts of problems with the offical V2/3 client or any unoffical based off of that code, mainly to do with it overloading my CPU and bluescreening, however clients that use the older system like Phoenix seem much more stable... but lacking in newer features..

I wonder. Open 'Run' --> 'cmd' and type in 'ipconfig' in the command prompt.
Look for the 'Default Gateway' and remember the address. (i.e. 10.0.0.138 or 192.168.0.3)
then in the same command prompt window type in 'ping <default gateway> /t' (i.e. ping 10.0.0.138 /t)
This will constantly ping your router until you hit Ctrl+C. When you close SL look at the command prompt window running the ping, if when you close SL you start seeing "Request Timed Out." or the ping rising above the <1ms you might just have a max connections issue that's common on heavy programs like that.