diff --git a/OpenSim/Region/Application/ConfigurationLoader.cs b/OpenSim/Region/Application/ConfigurationLoader.cs
index c3e7b867bc..21edcc500d 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Region/Application/ConfigurationLoader.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Region/Application/ConfigurationLoader.cs
@@ -305,8 +305,8 @@ namespace OpenSim
                 config.Set("region_info_source", "filesystem");
 
                 config.Set("gridmode", false);
-                config.Set("physics", "basicphysics");
-                config.Set("meshing", "ZeroMesher");
+                config.Set("physics", "OpenDynamicsEngine");
+                config.Set("meshing", "Meshmerizer");
                 config.Set("physical_prim", true);
                 config.Set("see_into_this_sim_from_neighbor", true);
                 config.Set("serverside_object_permissions", false);
diff --git a/bin/OpenSim.ini.example b/bin/OpenSim.ini.example
index 8582a6c351..d38c511ba2 100644
--- a/bin/OpenSim.ini.example
+++ b/bin/OpenSim.ini.example
@@ -134,19 +134,24 @@
     ; if you would like to allow prims to be physical and move by physics with the physical checkbox in the client set this to true.
     physical_prim = true
 
-    ; Select a mesher here. ZeroMesher is safe and fast.
-    ; ZeroMesher also means that the physics engine models the physics of prims
-    ; sticking to the basic shapes the engine does support. Usually this is only a box.
-    ; Meshmerizer gives a better handling of complex prims by using triangle meshes.
-    ; Note that only ODE physics currently deals with meshed prims in a satisfactory way
+    ; Select a mesher here.
     ;
-    meshing = ZeroMesher
-    ;meshing = Meshmerizer
+    ; Meshmerizer properly handles complex prims by using triangle meshes.
+    ; Note that only the ODE physics engine currently deals with meshed prims in a satisfactory way
+    ;
+    ; ZeroMesher is faster but leaves the physics engine to model the mesh using the basic shapes that it supports
+    ; Usually this is only a box
+
+    meshing = Meshmerizer
+    ;meshing = ZeroMesher
 
     ; Choose one of the physics engines below
-    physics = basicphysics
+    ; OpenDynamicsEngine is by some distance the most developed physics engine
+    ; basicphysics effectively does not model physics at all, making all objects phantom
+
+    physics = OpenDynamicsEngine
+    ;physics = basicphysics
     ;physics = POS
-    ;physics = OpenDynamicsEngine
     ;physics = modified_BulletX
 
     ; ##