1) I am a badass with a sniper rifle or rocket launcher

2) Having the lowest latency is really a huge advantage. 

Of course I still lag sometimes (usually the WORSE times), but I try to help by limiting my games to 6 people or less to ease the server burden.

When I play on other people's servers I usually in the top 3, but rarely win.  On my own server (even playing against some of the same folks) I come out on top most of the time (75%+).  Not fair I know, but I never realized how badly the odds were stacked against me when I was playing on other people's servers who were overloaded with way too many players.

Very interesting! Turkey, are you hosting the server on a seperate machine or are you hosting it on the same machine you play Halo on?

It's nice to host sometimes, because playing on the local network that the hosted server is on, can be advantageous to any player on that network.  I remember playing Half Life and Counterstrike, as well as Starcraft, and we'd always have a clear advantage in terms of speed and less lag when it came to our own server/network hosting. 

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Yes, I am a crackberry addict....

What can i say? I'm a gadget freak!

thanks