Alright here's the rundown... recently got moved into our new place and got a 50mbps/4.5meg/s connection hooked up and it seems on every other game we play the ping is fine... but halo the ping is spiking constantly between 60-1000ms... which it's far enough apart I can play, but it's making me miss shots.
Connection speed tests between 40-50ms and 51-62mbps. Ping and latency are fine according to pingtest and no abnormalities with any other game... just Halo...
Already killed most of the W7 background tasks and misc programs I don't need going... literally had Xfire, AIDA64(temp monitoring), Afterburner(GPU Fan control), and nothing else going...
PC Specs
AMD FX4100
Gigabyte 990FX UD3
G.Skill Sniper 1600 2x4gb
Saphire ATI Radeon 3870 x2 512 256bit Crossfire
WD 250gb 7200rpm 6gb/s
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
It was working fine at my house 60 miles away on a 10mbps connection... so I am puzzled... the only difference is a new connection, new modem, and new software installed that doesn't interfere....
I DID have Folding@Home going but it was paused and has never caused latency issues in other games.