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1. Ping spiking to 3000+ only when on SL, any ideas?

   These are all excellent suggestions. I'll keep the pre-pbr switch in mind as a last resort if the other two don't improve the situation first. I'll tinker with it later tomorrow and see if the combo of clearing my cache and cranking the bandwidth back to DSL... I believe it's currently closer to the middle right now from my last attempt to mess with it. Even if there's only a slight improvement, I'll gladly take anything I can get! The soonest I'll be able to get a cable is probably once the holidays are over but I'll definitely be looking into it.

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3. Ping spiking to 3000+ only when on SL, any ideas?

   Ah Yeah, I've lived with that speed (and even lower) a time or two when I was on wifi and the provider (even though saying they don't) throttled things badly. Here's a suggestion or two to try, from someone who's lived the high ping no loading irritations a time or two... Of course the obvious solution is to get yourself a long ethernet cable, and see if there's still any issues...but that isn't always something one can just run out and grab on any given day. So... Not sure what viewer you're using (FS, SLV or otherwise), but I would switch to the last non PBR release by Firestorm . When you install it, do a fresh clean install...remove all old cache and so forth. I know, if you're surrounded by PBR materials things are going to look white and so on, but think of this as a temp solution. I read you messed with your bandwidth slider in the first post and I saw mention of maxing it out..Normally, I'm right along with folks when they say max it out, but in this case, i'd drop it to DSL and let it sit there for a while and see what happens....this is of course is regardless if you follow the first route. Now, there is one other thing to try, like if you don't want to swap viewers or roll back to PBR. I would still clear your cache out completely. As in go into the cache folders on your pc and delete them. Yes, things will load slowly, and doing this, things will possibly take long(er) to load. But for starters you're dealing with that already, and there could be something corrupted in there...how does that toss your ping into chaos speed? Don't know, but my wife ran into a similar issue a while back, cleared her cache and things improved. As i mentioned above, think of all of the suggestions as a temp solution, so if you do drop back to pre-pbr it's not a perm thing, just trying to track down where the issue may lay. Hope something here helps! 😁

4. Do you guys still think PBR is worth it?

   Hopefully, but Charlotte pointed out earlier that the Lindens closed the Jira on the issue. So indicators would seem to show they have their fingers in their ears on the issue at the moment.

5. Are the usage of 'bots' legal?

   Registered bots are legal. And they don't count towards traffic. If these ones are being used to game traffic, then they are presumably unregistered, which is a violation of the ToS -- as is gaming traffic -- so you can report them as such. Here is what LL's policy actually says about abuse reporting bots: "Reporting violations of the Scripted Agent policy is crucial to helping Linden Lab with enforcement. To report a potential violation, we ask that Residents please use the in-world Report Abuse function and file it under the category Disturbing the Peace. When the Governance team receives a report, the team reviews it and performs an investigation to determine whether a violation has taken place. For additional guidance on filing an Abuse Report, please refer to Filing an Abuse Report." You can find the details of LL's policy on scripted agents (i.e., bots) here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Scripted_Agent_Policy