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Posted by: Achronos
I also maintain that Chrome is weaksauce, and IE9 is fast and works very well
You may be confusing cheaters with foreigners. I live in New Zealand and sometimes get host while I'm playing with other friends from near by. Occasionally, when I'm host, the opposing team has players from far away countries, so they don't have the greatest connections. After winning those games we are often accused of cheating, when it's really not our fault.
Yes there are players who manipulate the system by forcing their friends host (bridging) and some who go to the lengths of standbying, but remember that not all laggy games are due to cheaters.
Sometimes the host may even have somebody using a computer at their house, which could cause quite bad lag for other players in the game. It's not intentional and could be another cause of the laggy games that you come across.
As for Reach, you might like to read this recent interview. Or more specifically, from that interview, "We've absolutely overhauled the entire networking layer, so the online multiplayer experience in general should be significantly better than in Halo 3."
Their are also the preferences that you will have the ability to set in Reach such as language, locale and connection speed. You should be able to set your preferences so that you find other players who are in the same country as you, which will greatly reduce the amount of laggy games you come across.
For the people who are actually cheating, the Banhammer in Reach has been improved too (and is always being improved and updated). That is the last line of defense against cheaters and I'm sure it will work well.
With the improvements made to Reach you shouldn't have to worry about the laggy games, or at least not as much. For the laggy games that you do come across; they won't be as bad as they are in Halo 3 (thanks to the improved networking code and hitscan).
So go ahead, buy Reach and renew your subscription because improvements have been made. Or at least try it before you buy it.