Hey duders, just writing a quick blog post about something that really, really, REALLY annoys me, as a person who lives in Europe (and not in the UK at that), my connection is quite low, and it definantly has its disadvantages: 
1. Lag, lag, lag LAG LAG, nothing like turning a corner just to be reset behind the corner i just ran by. 
2. The kill-cam showing me outside of cover even though i just ran behind the wall. 
3. (and my personal favorite) The good 'ol killcam showing me stare at an enemy while on my end i was shooting the hell out of him with no hit markers or nothing. 
4. Players with 4 bars have slight advantage over players with 2 bars. 
Now i dont get connection problems all the time, its just when i do, it gets really annoying, i really hate the whole: "he who has best connection, wins" thing going on. Now i know to some it may not seem like a big deal, but i have to struggle to keep my k/d up because sometimes ill get into a bullcrap game where it seems impossable to get a kill. 
 
Now why the hell do i not get this problem almost ever on games like Battlefield Bad Company 2? or Resistance 1? It was only untill CoD4 that i even relized i had lag, so why cant they just do something about it, i know a lot of people with the same complaints. 
 
Thanks for reading, 

Hey duders, just writing a quick blog post about something that really, really, REALLY annoys me, as a person who lives in Europe (and not in the UK at that), my connection is quite low, and it definantly has its disadvantages: 
1. Lag, lag, lag LAG LAG, nothing like turning a corner just to be reset behind the corner i just ran by. 
2. The kill-cam showing me outside of cover even though i just ran behind the wall. 
3. (and my personal favorite) The good 'ol killcam showing me stare at an enemy while on my end i was shooting the hell out of him with no hit markers or nothing. 
4. Players with 4 bars have slight advantage over players with 2 bars. 
Now i dont get connection problems all the time, its just when i do, it gets really annoying, i really hate the whole: "he who has best connection, wins" thing going on. Now i know to some it may not seem like a big deal, but i have to struggle to keep my k/d up because sometimes ill get into a bullcrap game where it seems impossable to get a kill. 
 
Now why the hell do i not get this problem almost ever on games like Battlefield Bad Company 2? or Resistance 1? It was only untill CoD4 that i even relized i had lag, so why cant they just do something about it, i know a lot of people with the same complaints. 
 
Thanks for reading, 

Battlefield Bad Company 2 runs on dedicated servers. I don't know about Resistance though.  
You should get a better connection.

Sorry you have a bad connection. That just goes to show that IW's matchmaking sucks ass. They're supposed to match you with other people that have 2 bars.

Yeah, thats not an option for me thoguh =/, i like in the middle of no-where and the only to internet providers are both complete crap!

Pay no attention to the bars, i dont know how many times ive been in a game where everybody is complaining about lag yet all have 4 green bars. Oh and yes i agree, its quite frustrating when someone is one shotting everybody cause they are 5 seconds ahead.

My connection has recently been sucking too so I can sympathize with this. Modern Warfare 2 is pretty bad for it too, so frustrating. Playing Team SWAT on Halo 3 with lag is probably the worst though. You experience the lag, and then a bullet hits you in the head and you die. Rinse and repeat about 20 times and that is what playing Team SWAT with lag is like.

What sucks even more is when almost half your matches end when everyone gets booted out halfway through the game.

I've never actually experienced lag like what you guys are describing on MW2.

When I used to play MW2 I had lag issues. Never hag them in MAG or BFBC2 or any other video game. 

K, well when you make the internet perfect we will all thank you.

I wish the internet was instantaneous. Unfortunately, it isn't, so even those of us with good connections have to deal with that split second that may make all the difference. Nothing to do but to upgrade and/or deal with it.

I've disproved this so many times but it has also rang true for just as many games. Maybe they should give the best connection to the person with the worst K/D.

so true they should have made dedicated servers for everything. there would be happy PC gamers, happy console gamers. it sucks more if the person is in another country and they are host or lag a lot.

I think the issue's a lot worse in other games. For Modern Warfare, it seems like the games run at one of two polarities, generally--very little, or almost unnoticeable lag, and then match-ending, totally crippling lag.  
 
In something like Halo 3, the lag doesn't show its face as clearly as it does in Modern Warfare, and it instead permeates the mechanics of the gameplay--the melee system, most notably--which just makes the experience feel really inconsistent. 

Forget the connection.
 
"HE WHO CONTROLS THE SPICE, CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE!!!"

Yes but Black Ops will have dedicated servers.