this loooks SOOOO BAD?!?!?!
is it?
if so then i need a new connection :\

You definatly need to ditch telstra they just plain suck, i suggest you move to iiNet

Go to this link enter your phone number and see what kind of plans your eligible for
http://www.iinet.net.au/broadband/plans.html

Here is the speed at my new house...

I just did mine again - virtually the same:

iiNet are sliding into the shi**er.

Ever since they decided to use only Reach and Vocus for their international links they've been average to bad for international latency.

Now data to almost all European destinations goes through the US resulting in 400ms+ of lag, in reality the average European connection is 500ms+ which is completely unplayable.

If one wants to game without getting unplayable European hosts your only choice is Internode.

Alot of the latency issues can be easily solved if game developers for XBL were wiser and simply reduced the variety in their online playlists. Halo 3 is a good case in point. Too much variety with up to 16 playlists available at any one time. The chances of finding games quickly on good connection search are greatly reduced because players are spread throughout so many playlists.

The solution is very simple.

Put greater game type variety within a much smaller number of online playlists. By concentrating much higher numbers of players into fewer playlists consisting of more diverse match options you can vastly increase good connection search success and speed.

So yeah latency will "always" exist to people on the other side of the planet. But logical thinking on the part of developers can greatly reduce those poor international match ups by creating a better environment for the good connection search to operate in.

I suspect Reach is going down this route as the new veto system seems to support that. Halo 3 will be heading that way too after the launch of Reach with the current H3 playlists being "halved" by Bungie. Expect some playlist blending as a result.

Not a fan of my upload speed tho..

XBL locally is still fine though, been Operation Flashpoint'ing coop and been no lag at all.. still.. international mw2'ing is still hit and miss.

DJHELLISH WINS
FATALITY!

lol

As long as you're not host, that is Micah.