More often than not, in a social situation on Second
Life© (SL), either you experience lag, or hear someone complain about it. Even
in instant messages on SL, lag sometimes makes words get mangled and out of
context, and sometimes what you say disappears completely.
What is lag and what
causes it? How can you minimize lag? Stareyes Galaxy got on SL to find out.
Linden Lab (LL) maintains a web page for the “minimum
requirements” to run Second Life, and looking at that page, both the hardware
platform and the network connection have a profound effect on how you are able
to utilize the capabilities of SL.