Two suggestions for you:

1.  Get better internet (just joking because you know someone had to say it)

2.  Move on from the COD series (my current choice) and wait for BLOPS 2

MW3 is broke and IMO thye are unable to fix it.

There are plenty of good titles being release that should hold you over until BLOPS 2.

1. Ghost Recon Future Soldier (May 22)

2.  Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (August)

3.  Halo 4 (Nov 6)

4. Black Ops 2 (Nov 13)

I hate to say this but since the recent updates (this one and the one previous)... my experience has gotten better.

Way less lag, even when I have a rag-tag group of rascals in my party.. this morning had one with peeps from NH, GA, AR, WY, WA and CA in it.

Still getting a game here and there of "aw, come on.." but in general a much better experience.

I really and sincerly wish this was the case for everyone else.  This game has become more fun for me in the past few weeks.

Xbox live where servicing their network yesterday at least in the Uk

What I don't understand is this:

I only play <50ms games. I almost always have a 4bar and am always about a second behind. But how can people in a <50 lobby have 3, 2 and even 1 bar? I've had games where I am not host, but I have the only 4 bar. I've played other games where everyone has a 3 bar. How is this possible?

GhostmanLoon wrote:

 

What I don't understand is this:

 

I only play <50ms games. I almost always have a 4bar and am always about a second behind. But how can people in a <50 lobby have 3, 2 and even 1 bar? I've had games where I am not host, but I have the only 4 bar. I've played other games where everyone has a 3 bar. How is this possible?

This game is screwed, that's how. I'm beginning to think that latency/ping and the sync issues are two completely different things. So you can be in a less than 50ms lobby, have a great connection, and still be synced a second behind.

Honestly I haven't really had a problem with "lag" in the general term. Sure people take way too many hitmarkers sometimes, and I get bad bullet lag occasionally but I can deal with that. Been playing online games on slow internet for 10 years now, I'm used to it. But what I CAN'T deal with is seeing everything happen a second too late. It's like when the countdown to start the match pops up, everybody's on 3 when I'm still on 4, and it carries through the rest of the match.

1. this new update has totally screwed me over I have not been playing too well. PS3 update 1.14 :@ I mean the update is trying to improve the whole lobby's gameplay. I weaker connection is dragging mine down. I know how to force host on MW3 and when ever before the update i was host I always had 4 bars but now being host I'm always on 3 bars like the rest and my KD has fallen to 1.8 this week