Mac is there any thing that can be done with bt hh3 i have static ip on xbox and fordwarded ports and have so much bother getting into 50ping, Bt hh3 worst peace of crap ever,

Dude cool your jets, I get prety good pings on 3G. Steady 53-63ms ping to my home agent server which is Chicago, IL. I ping lobies under 125ms most of the time. I get upto 1.4Mbps download, and upto 500kbps upload. I get a faster upload than my neighbor a mile away who has cable. And my download beats my friend's DSL speeds. So cool your jets. I was just sharing an MTU change that stopped lag spikes and made things more smooth. The backhaul to my tower is single T-1 so yeah. I use a router with my USB modem to elimate the PC. Plus, when I am top player in a game it justs means I am good if I play on 3G

Here is my ping to www.google.com

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

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C:\Documents and Settings\*>ping www.google.com -t

Pinging www.l.google.com [74.125.225.82] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=84ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=83ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=91ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=84ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=87ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=69ms TTL=53

Reply from 74.125.225.82: bytes=32 time=81ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 74.125.225.82:

    Packets: Sent = 17, Received = 17, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

    Minimum = 69ms, Maximum = 91ms, Average = 83ms

That's not bad for gaming at all, just a little disadvantage. No pings over 100ms, and anyhting under 100ms is pretty good for gaming. And that's on Wifi, my PS3 is hardwired.

I've followed the instructions here and was still experinecing lag. I searched the internet and saw youtubers saying lowering your MTU from the default 1500 (mine was set at 1472 after reading your thread) to just above the minimum 1364 for Xbox360 would help. Through trial and error I have found that my games seem to run the smoothest between 1408 and 1452. I've seen post mentioning that this may be a placebo effect so I am wondering what am I affecting when I change my MTU? I'm not asking for the technical explanation of it all, I just want to know if I am lagging other players, hence cheating? and why, if this thread suggest going to the largest no fragmented packet size for MTU, do I get better performance at lower settings?

Also, I have TWC broadband/wideband 30down/5up internet, using a linksys wrt120N router, my QoS for Xbox360 is high priority and everything else on my network has QoS set to normal. I've done port forwarding and any other optimization listed here. I am in Raleigh, NC using pingtest.net, I can ping Corpus Christie, TX (1,200 miles away) at 48ms 2 jitter and 0% packet loss. With all that, since the next to last update/patch I have not been able to get into a >50ms lobby more than 1 out of 50 times I play and I get into >75ms lobbies just slightly more frequently. Is there anything I can do about that?

I used this one: http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm I found it a little more polished than namebench but I did use namebench to confirm the results and they did match.