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[Maertz]

they pick the fastest connection to host the game. you can tell who is host by holding the back button as soon as the gamestarts and seeing whos icon appears first. the lag all depends on the host if hes got a slow connection but best outta eveyone it will lag. you going form 13 kills to 1-2  later is not because of whos hosting thats just your skill (or luck) you might start off good then die down. host does have an advantage but its notnecisarily going from host shooting ducks outta a bucket while everyone els is bad. its a little more mild.

[MaMbo_DK]

well, the reason for asking is that I recently migrated from a 2/0,512 Mbit line to a 10/10 Mbit line. And this hasn’t changed the frequency for me to host. Even if I can se the host is bad, (Like he is having 3 times as many frags as everybody else and laggy). What this let me to believe is, when waiting in the lobby for the game to begin, live is NOT doing a fair testing of speed. (But maybe ping, that would make sense, as I'm living a long way from US, where the most people I play with live)

Wot I want to know is how Xbox live pick the host for the game? I can't recall if I have stated my connection speed somewhere, when registering my account?! But if I have, how to change It.? I have this thought, that xbox live is not testing speed at all, but will give the host to the one stating the best speed. At his registration (False or true)?!?

I have read all I can find about the subject, but it seems like a black box, how live works? If I could choose between skill and sitting on top of the server, I know what I would choose….Server guy takes the cake 2 out of 3 times.. I think this is bad, as I would like the best player to win.


Greetz from Cartooncountry.

MaMbo_dk