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Jeffer03 · 07-04-2008, 09:17 PM

Don't know if you ever solved your problem but I have the same problem on a Dell D630 laptop. Second Life will run OK for a while, but then the Ping Sim time goes up to 2 or 3 seconds, and will even climb from there to 8 to 10. I have 3 other machines including an IBM laptop that do not have this issue.
The Dell laptop, coincidentally, has the same or similar graphics chip-set that you have. It's got the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chip Set.
Anyway I've spent countless hours trying to get a resolution by updating drivers, changing settings and configurations, and hours communicating with Dell support. Finally reinstalled OS but that did not resolve the issue, although it did seem to improve a little. I also tried a PC-Card wireless LAN since it's the Ping time that is being affected and I wanted to by-pass the Broadcom NIC thinking something was funky with that. But again, the problem seems to improve but eventually came back.
I really want Dell to fix this for me since I consider this broken and my laptop is under warranty until 2010. It's going to be tough I think to convince them.
Oh, if I ping the server from a command the Ping time is fine, under 100msec.
thanks,
Jeffer03

07-04-2008, 09:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Jeffer03 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 OS: xp	Re: lag and bad ping time Don't know if you ever solved your problem but I have the same problem on a Dell D630 laptop. Second Life will run OK for a while, but then the Ping Sim time goes up to 2 or 3 seconds, and will even climb from there to 8 to 10. I have 3 other machines including an IBM laptop that do not have this issue. The Dell laptop, coincidentally, has the same or similar graphics chip-set that you have. It's got the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chip Set. Anyway I've spent countless hours trying to get a resolution by updating drivers, changing settings and configurations, and hours communicating with Dell support. Finally reinstalled OS but that did not resolve the issue, although it did seem to improve a little. I also tried a PC-Card wireless LAN since it's the Ping time that is being affected and I wanted to by-pass the Broadcom NIC thinking something was funky with that. But again, the problem seems to improve but eventually came back. I really want Dell to fix this for me since I consider this broken and my laptop is under warranty until 2010. It's going to be tough I think to convince them. Oh, if I ping the server from a command the Ping time is fine, under 100msec. thanks, Jeffer03 Last edited by Jeffer03 : 07-04-2008 at 09:19 PM.