vims1990 wrote:

 

What I question is why I was still getting host on my unlimited broadband plan? My upload was still decent but I noticed alot of players complaining about my host connection. During the times where I was still on the unlimited plan, I hoped I wouldn't get chosen as host.

host is decided on a few different factors, upload speed and ping being two as such even though your down was being throttled (which would cause anyone connecting to you as host problems) as far as the game was concerned due to your upload you made a good host.

Unlimited plans can sometimes be a false ecomony for gamers, as they are the plans most likely to be throttled/traffic managed during peak times as they expect more people to be downloading stuff . You have alot of your customers on an unlimited plan all downloading torrents at the same time and the entire service grinds to a crawl this is why they do it. Even with unlimited you usually find in the small print the term "fair usage" which is an isps get out of jail card when customers complain their bandwidth has been throttled.

Updated with a section on the game engine, and a link to an interesting article that explains lag comp (until i get round to writing my own)

got more stuff to add in the next few days as and whens i get spare time