- jmh9072
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The problem is that Halo was not optimized for play over the Internet. It works great on LANs, where the latency is low and the bandwidth is plentiful and open. When you tunnel that through the Internet, where there's higher latency and lots of other traffic, well, it doesn't work out very well.
Now, I used to play Halo: CE over XBC quite regularly, but it's hard to find other players close to you with fast, stable connections, and even when you do, too many people begin to join and the game becomes unplayable.
I've found that Halo PC and Custom Edition work much better since their netcode has been optimized for online play (And not too many people play Halo: CE on XBC these days anyway).
EDIT: If you want to set up a game with some friends, I bet an OpenVPN tunnel would work just fine, provided you're close enough to each other. There'd be quite a bit of a host advantage, though.
[Edited on 01.09.2009 7:09 PM PST]