When I created a new character today, it was the first time I tried to log in with my account on this connection. The connection itself is slow, very slow, because it's run by the people who run my dorm thing out here in Germany, and their server is either overloaded all the time or just older than dirt.
The lag would usually be about 10 to 20 seconds. Happened when I got experience, pressed a button, anything. Opening emails took even longer. But with the new character, I never even saw the loading area, which prevented me from noticing the real problem until now.
When I start out in the loading area with my main (or any character, for that matter), I just can't do anything. When I tried to change my RSI's clothes on the inventory screen, it'd hang. I know it sent the data to the MxO servers because when I logged back in, the change had taken effect, but all that happened on my screen was that the cursor changed to a clock and it sat there and sat there and sat there. Did nothing.
Then I tried to jack into a hardline. Tried a couple different ones in Richland, each with the same result: the screen changed to loading screen, with the black background and the operator's chair, but it didn't load. It said "Negotiating with servers" for five minutes then would tell me that something failed.
Is there a way for me to get my character into the Matrix? Once he's actually inside, I can at least play with him, if in a very laggy way.
If you need system specs, I'll get them from the other computer. It's new and runs on Windows Vista, no graphics issues to speak of, and a gig of ram.