Halo 3 multiplayer lag

Johnny Bitte

Hey all,
I having terrible problems while playing Hal0 3 multi-player where the lag is quite literally killing me. Jumping from one part of the map to another, just dying with no cause, moving through an area and then suddenly be back where I started.

No this is either Xbox live or my connection.

When the match finishes beside each player it shows either green yellow or read bars! Are these to denote your signal because its mostly red or yellow for me while others are green.

Blazer

You're not on Eircom by any chance are you?
There's been brutal latency issues the past few weeks...really wrecking my games :mad:

Johnny Bitte

Berkut wrote: »

You're not on Eircom by any chance are you?
There's been brutal latency issues the past few weeks...really wrecking my games :mad:

No Ice broadband, xbox is network cable to our wireless router which connects to the antenna on the roof.

Get great results from speedtest.net, nothing else is connected only the xbox but still that fracking lag. Is there any port that should be opened for better performance?

honeybadger

you should check and see that you have a open nat type on your router,,and yea the red yello and green bars show your signal strenght

DiarmaidGNR

The_Goose135 wrote: »

Hey all,
I having terrible problems while playing Hal0 3 multi-player where the lag is quite literally killing me. Jumping from one part of the map to another, just dying with no cause, moving through an area and then suddenly be back where I started.

No this is either Xbox live or my connection.

When the match finishes beside each player it shows either green yellow or read bars! Are these to denote your signal because its mostly red or yellow for me while others are green.

I've had the same issues lately also, and I'm afraid to say it is because Halo 3 multiplayer is on its way out. Around 8 months ago the average number of people playing at one time was 200-300 thousand, but these days only around 10 thousand people are playing. The drop in numbers could be due to all the new games out.

RAIN

Ah there is legs left on the old dog yet! I have had issues with Lag in Halo in the past. If there is a red dot beside you're name then its you're connection more then likely but I wouldn't put it past live to be giving problems

I would say after Xmas you will see an increase in Halo activity everyone always comes back after a few months. Just when you think you're out it pulls you back in!

manufan16

Im with Ice BB too, bad lag on MW2 after 11pm last week or so.
Along with speedtest.net there is a sister site pingtest.net - this may help you identify what your probs are.

DiarmaidGNR

RAIN wrote: »

Ah there is legs left on the old dog yet! I have had issues with Lag in Halo in the past. If there is a red dot beside you're name then its you're connection more then likely but I wouldn't put it past live to be giving problems

I would say after Xmas you will see an increase in Halo activity everyone always comes back after a few months. Just when you think you're out it pulls you back in!

Hahaha!! We are Halo veterans.

Korvanica

ah yea, i used to have issues with halo lagging quite a bit. not so much at the moment. although havent played it in quite a bit. will be around christmas though, always lots of fools online then.

Trevor451

Ice broadband is not meant to be used for online gaming I have a 3mb eircom broadband and no issues here.

Zippitydoo

How would the fact that Halo is less popular at the moment possibly affect the performance issues in a negative way?

Gonzales

Zippitydoo wrote: »

How would the fact that Halo is less popular at the moment possibly affect the performance issues in a negative way?

reduction in dedicated halo servers. Servers reassigned to more popular games, maybe.

DiarmaidGNR

Zippitydoo wrote: »

How would the fact that Halo is less popular at the moment possibly affect the performance issues in a negative way?

Did you ever get the message - "selecting new host" during a game? - 1 of the players hosts the rest of the players during the game , usually the host has the best internet connection, but when fewer people are playing the host for your game is more likely to be further away (thousands of miles) from the rest of the players therefore creating ****-loads of lag.

Zippitydoo

reduction in dedicated halo servers. Servers reassigned to more popular games, maybe.

Ah ok, makes sense I guess, thanks. How does it work? Are halo games, or most games I guess hosted primarily by dedicated servers and secondarily by the players?

I can understand the lack of players leading to bad matchups but I play with americans all the time and the lag isn't bad at all so the distance can't be that much of an issue. I've been on halo recently a good bit by the way.... running as smoothly as ever!