Well, im guessing if they were to fix it, they would have to come out with Xbox Live 4.0 (no shit), and they would have something checking for packets to make sure that you dont pull out your cat5 cable. And if you keep pinging you will eventually lag up like crazy. If they did a ping to MS servers during your gameplay it will take all your bandwidth inless you had a kick ass connection. But if they did a ping to localhost, then most routers would probably read that as a MS-Dos attact and my router will block that IP until its unblocked. So if they were to do pings, it would probably lag everyone. But maybe they can just ping 127.0.0.1, which is the local computer/Xbox (thats if you noobs didnt know that), it shouldnt lag you up, and still make sure the cat5 cable is still in. Im not sure if any of this would work, its just my thinking. But I dont care, I dont have Halo 2, I have Rainbow Six 3, and I can still kill all them stand-by people...