Xbox Live Ping and Server?

Question

I live in Australia and have relatively fast internet (7000k download, 750k upload and 25 ping), however when I play Xbox Live the bar is usually red. Occasionally I get a green bar, but this is rare. I thought it could be that when I play I am probably connecting to an American Server, therefore my ping is increased. Is this what is happening, and if so how do I fix it? If not what could be the problem.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you're talking about Call of Duty 4, that means your playing people overseas from where you live, that's why you stick with a red bar. To solve this problem, where you put your clan tag, put in AUS, that makes you vs other people from Australia and you always stick with 4 green bars.

Answer 2

I play xbox live in Australia and I commonly get this problem too. It's just the fact that there are many more UK/US servers than Australian......and microsoft are too lazy to invent a better system for connecting to games.

Unfortunately this only thing that can help is this. Whenever you get into a game where you have a full green ping (Aussie Hosted Game) add everyone else in that game that is australian to your preffered players. This gives you more chance of joining a game that they are in hence a better ping. Hope this helps!