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A friend of my got a 2mbps download and 0,5mbps upload connection, he had no problems with any Call of Duty game.

Superb0b (i think its his correct name), did a video about how much traffic Black Ops 2 is using, and its only 4kb/s which is very low and your connection should be enough to play this game online, what more important is, is your ping to the actual Host.

no, it's not just you and it's not your imagination.

Welcome to Blops2.

There are lots of threads and videos talking about this issue.  Some people will just say it must be you because they don't have any such problem (even when they do and just take it as the norm).  Some people say it's lag or lagcomp etc.

As far as the devs go the game is just fine, which has kind of made it worse because we are all left to guess work trying to find out what really is the problem and how we can deal with it.

Again some people say just setting the match making preference to "best" has made it better, other people have messed around with their routers, connections, isp etc etc. .sometimes it's helped sometimes it hasn't.

I have gone as far as paying for two ISP's  and really have not noticed much difference only with my fiberoptic connection I get host a lot more often and that only makes this problem worse.

My KD in past Cod games has always been above 2+ but in this game I am just at the 1.6... 1.7 ish range.  I can have one good night and get it up to 1.7 and then for the next few nights it's horrible and it drops down to 1.4 or 1.5.

If you really think it's your connection, go back and play MW2 and see how that plays for you.  see how often you get the same issue in that game.

Best thing you can do is hope the new update improves it, if it's really getting frustrating, do yourself a favour and just trade the game in.

Trust me it's the game. From release I went from .7 to 1.2 kdr over two weeks and was going up from then till two weeks ago I went from that to a 1 kdr and lost a bunch in spm. Now I am up to 1.05, but the connection is turning to crap again.

Hopefully this time it doesn't last for a month and a half till I can get two weeks of tolerable lag and maybe ten games of great connections.

I have a 30/4 conn and I won't bother posting ping because it's irrelevant in a game that doesn't have dedicated servers.

Your problem is that you are playing Core. I used to have the same problems until I discovered hardcore. Does HC have lag? Ya, but it doesn't handicap you as bad as core. Try HC, there is an adjustment period but you will find it a lot more rewarding than core. For those who don't agree, have fun with the broken game mode aka core.

my KD in all other COD's was above 3. In blackops 2 its at 4.5.

I would not blame yourself for what you descibed. My friends and I have all experienced the exact same problem with this game. The problem you are experiencing is with the lag compensation for BO2. It's the worst out of all the COD games, and it basically punishes you for having a good connection. Since Treyarch didn't invest in dedicated servers (which they could easily do for League) the player is left with what we call lag compensation. People who have terrible connections bring everyone else down in order to "even" the playing field which ends up punishing you. If you recall from older games, this didn't really exist and if your connection was bad then you had to suck it up, but now companies are tryin to appeal to the masses and not let anyone's feelings get hurt when their connection sucks and they can't get any points.