Please help, I have called my ISP and everything and I can't understand what is wrong. I have DSL, supposedly wide open which will go up to 10Mbps. My average on Speetest. net is like 3 Mbps but we'll get to that later. While playing Halo 3, lately I have been very laggy. This intrigued me to find out info about ping and latency, etc. Some people say changing ISP's help, some say a new router will help, whatever. My dad called our ISP and a guy came over to check things out. I wasn't home but my dad said the guy was uber friendly and checked everything from our router to some CMD Prompt stuff to our physical wire connection outside my house and said everything was fine here. Well... In the middle of the day today, around 2 P.M., with my computer off so that my Xbox 360 is the only thing using the router, I was in a 6 player online game. If you don't know, Halo measures your connection to the host with bars and colors, 6 Green bars being the highest and 1 red bar being the lowest. Well everyone had 6 green bars and I kept bouncing back and forth between 3 and 4 yellow bars. The reason this is a concern is that I have no idea why my connection could be so bad! I've had better connections in the past at 10:00 P.M. with my computer on, so that cancels out the theory that my connection slows down when more users are using the internet by my ISP. Through multiple tests on speedtest.net I notice from the recommended server (Talahassee) I get about 129-140 ping every time, not bad at all. I get average 3 Mbps. However, through multiple tests, I see that during some tests, the download speed will STOP and start gradually declining by about 10 or so Kbps. Some tests I've gotten as low as 2.2 Mbps. It seems that for some reason, my whole internet just has surges of downtimes or something. It's just such a problem because I can't understand why my connection has to be so much worse than everyone else's, and if there was ANYTHING I could do, I'd definitely do it, or at least if I knew WHY MY connection sucks so much worse, it'd help me rest easy. Please, if there's anything anyone can tell me to help me, I'll gladly accept any knowledge you may have on the subject. Thank you for reading. "I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of human intelligence is to question oneself and others." - Socrates

Out of curiosity, when you test your network settings through the 360 dashboard, what does it say your NAT status is ?

out of curiosity how close is you recomended server for speed test? Hi, I like things that go BOOM!