Indeed. If someone's connection is crap and they're the host, everyone else's will be crap as well for the duration of that game.
Previously an upstream of mine had a bad router that would decide on its own what traffic it would or would not pass without issue. The issue was most noticeable on World of Warcraft, but downloads from various companies didn't work either. All I could do was to have someone play that game at a hop and see if it worked or not. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:45 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] xbox 360 issues > So, if the host of the game is on a bad connection that would screw up > everyone? > > I've got people with 8 and 9 meg connections having trouble. Found out > about a play station customer that's having some trouble too. > > I think that there must be something on our network(s) that is at least > adding to the problem. I just can't figure out what to test for. > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:08 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] xbox 360 issues > > >> *nods* The Halo and Call of Duty series operate that way. I haven't >> played >> many other games online. >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Josh Luthman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:06 AM >> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] xbox 360 issues >> >>> I know Halo 2 and 3 does use the peers as gaming hosts. Can't say for >>> other games. To my knowledge Halo is the dominate Xbox game. >>> >>> On 12/2/08, Mike Hammett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Problems with PC games? >>>> >>>> I believe the vast majority, if not all XBox games are hosted by the >>>> users >>>> in the game instead of a central server (as mentioned earlier). It's >>>> entirely dependant on how good or bad everyone's connection is. Could >>>> be >>>> your connection quality back to MS central. Speed isn't the only >>>> indicator >>>> of connection quality. >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> Mike Hammett >>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>>> http://www.ics-il.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:25 AM >>>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] xbox 360 issues >>>> >>>>> We've seen trouble for months out here. >>>>> >>>>> Even with customers on connections that run 1 to 2 megs. Heck, I've >>>>> got >>>>> customers that pull 8 megs both ways that are having trouble with xbox >>>>> 360 >>>>> games. >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Wes James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:23 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] xbox 360 issues >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Xbox live service has been up and down since Black Friday. It is >>>>>> possible that the host machine is also causing problems, but my guess >>>>>> is >>>>>> that the million new subscribers over the weekend gave the service a >>>>>> pounding. See if they are still having the issues today, as it seems >>>>>> things have smoothed out a bit. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -Wes >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>> On >>>>>> Behalf Of Travis Johnson >>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:04 AM >>>>>> To: WISPA General List >>>>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] xbox 360 issues >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hey now.... Nowhere, ID is really close to me.... >>>>>> >>>>>> Josh Luthman wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> The games on those consoles are hosted (network wise) by other >>>>>> players. The server for a 16 player game could very well be a person >>>>>> in Nowhere, ID with a 1/384 DSL connection. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 12/2/08, Marlon K. 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