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(The system is probably more complex than this, but here it is simply:)
Your xbox has, let's say a number, saying how often you should host. It starts at 10 for example.
If you play a game, that game randomly picks a host, but heavily weighted by your host-number.
If you are host, then the game starts recording how well your connection is to the others, etc.
If you have a good connection on average, your host number starts going up, and you host more.
If you have bad connections, or you start dropping players (caused by bad connections or standbying, ip blocking, etc.), then the number starts going down pretty fast, making it very unlikely you'll host when you play online.
Nothing to worry about - it's completely automated and over time it'll almost always pick a good host - and if I had a bad connection, I wouldn't even want to be picked host as everyone else would lag and probably leave.
When you play a custom game and someone with a bad connection is picked as host, just end it and restart it, and there's a chance he won't be host again. (This problem is really common if you host a game with a friend, 1v1, and then you have 14 people join, and it gets very laggy. To fix it, just end the game and start it again. When you restart it, there's a good chance someone who joined has a better connection than you, and he'll be picked as host.)
Also, if for some reason you don't want to have to restart the game, just figure out whose party host (it will be one of the people who were in at the start of the game unless you've already done this) and have them leave and rejoin. When the connection host leaves it picks a new one. (Almost always if there's a blue-screen, and then it says someone left, that person was the connection host and it just picked a new one. Blue screens are also caused by problems with your connection to the host as it tries to reconnect to the host [standbying, laggy connections, and interference cause this one])
[Edited on 08.31.2007 4:15 PM PDT]