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I like this one a bit more funny thing is it is slightly farther away, that's odd?


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  • 01.19.2012 9:19 PM PDT

Mine. I NEVER get host :(

  • 01.19.2012 9:49 PM PDT
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20 down

4 up

12 ping

.... Still takes 1 public shell to hold me offline.

  • 01.19.2012 10:00 PM PDT
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  • 01.19.2012 10:52 PM PDT

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  • 01.19.2012 11:33 PM PDT
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  • 01.20.2012 12:00 AM PDT

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  • 01.20.2012 12:03 AM PDT

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edit: Hey mlp256, you should consider a new provider, telstra is horrible. :P



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  • 01.20.2012 3:26 AM PDT

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  • 01.20.2012 4:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: Xannder
Spawn031, that is a tiny pic link, the 1 on the date has a dot next to it, that means it is photoshopped, which means anything else in the pic is as well.

Bad photoshop, bad...

oh.
This is mine

I like this one a bit more funny thing is it is slightly farther away, that's odd?


Thats becaus the 2nd server is better then the one closer to you.

  • 01.20.2012 4:33 AM PDT

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Good enough not to lag out I guess?

  • 01.20.2012 4:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: GLO Is Back
Posted by: Suikoden
I have about 90mb down and 9mb up. My buddy has about the same as me, only diffrence is he has about 40mb up. Yet we never get host.Sure my upload is not that god but its way better then the players that do get host. It's basicly always some player on dial up that gets host

Your connection has NOTHING to do with bungies logic.

bungie came up with an idea called 'host record' (adapted [poorly] from Microsoft Research). Your host record is formed based on the speed between you (as the elected host) and other players in the game.

So you (with A+ host) get connected with 7 other players with crap dial-up (D-). At the end of the game each of those 7 players record back "crap host" (but not because of YOUR speed, but the limit of their own connections).
End result - you get a crap host record.
(this can be abused - but not about to go into that)

Few studios took up this idea, and those that did dropped it around 2005 .... but bungie, well who knows?!?


WTF that is stupid. So this is basicly why i hade more host games on my old connection?
2.16mb down
0.47mb up
17 in ping 50 miles away

  • 01.20.2012 4:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: GLO Is Back
Posted by: Suikoden
WTF that is stupid. So this is basicly why i hade more host games on my old connection?
2.16mb down
0.47mb up
17 in ping 50 miles away


Your 'host record' is tied to your console (based on a unique ID built into the box itself - not ip/mac etc). This article (scroll down to 'How does the host record work?') explains some of the background.

It also takes some time to adjust. Get a bad record and it will take a LOT of good games to recover. So get a new connection and you may not see results for a while. There are ways to fool the system, and Chris Butcher showed some of these in another published document (google is your friend here, ninjas dont like the links, even if Chris is one of their own).

Most modern games use a MM ping to pair like players. bungie reject this because they think people will lag switch what was initially a good connection. However other (smarter) studios get around this by switching hosts mid-game if the elected host shows a marked ping rate drop.

Ironically bungie are not taking the 'host record' concept into their next title - 8 years on and they [almost] admit they messed up.


Lol so they dont match players based on Ping. And yeah like you said when/if somebody laggswitch or ping drops most games change host, some even host ban them(Gears2).
So this is allso basicly why Reach never change host when all players ping all of a sudden drops to red-yellow.
Oh well i will have some interesting reading from that link.

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  • 01.20.2012 5:31 AM PDT
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ZomG, for those people wanting to know everything, this is not my Main tag anymore, (McCrash IS for Posting on B.net)

Original XbL Gamertag, zeDutchKreatiVz, as you guessed, Im Dutch/from Holland/Amsterdam.

...Also wTf happened to Halo.......*sighs*

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mine from the Netherlands. uhm tbPh,
I've had host a good amount of time (I think)
in H3, Reach , Cod.

Altho I srsly dont know why, its deff. not the best, however not bad it seems either, anyway, on any game I play or insert, it always says Green, Good Connection, or Optimum sumthin, No packet loss..

the thing is, I dont use Wireless, neither do I have it so im forced to use e-Cable, which doesn't bother me really.

but I know that there are people out there with way better connection than me and back in the day, I use to get thrashtalked alot because of my host ( back then, I didnt knew, but so many -players instantly did....with software)

  • 01.20.2012 7:51 AM PDT
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ZomG, for those people wanting to know everything, this is not my Main tag anymore, (McCrash IS for Posting on B.net)

Original XbL Gamertag, zeDutchKreatiVz, as you guessed, Im Dutch/from Holland/Amsterdam.

...Also wTf happened to Halo.......*sighs*

omg im an idiot (excuse this internetnoob -_-)
LOOK AT this, my first one, was with a server in Belgium, now its Texas T.T....wow slow

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1719416868.png

  • 01.20.2012 7:56 AM PDT

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  • 01.20.2012 8:22 AM PDT

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  • 01.20.2012 9:09 AM PDT

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Useless unless I bring my xbox to the firm, but my emails sure go fast.

  • 01.20.2012 9:34 AM PDT

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So when I do this and share my results, every time it says my grade is a B, yet in Reach it says warning about my bandwidth

why?

  • 01.20.2012 10:41 AM PDT

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20 down/4 up/ less than 10 ping

  • 01.20.2012 10:44 AM PDT

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