ok wasent sure if this should go in here or the internet part of the forums.

i have a question i am on telecom broadband but i have gone over my quota and am at dial up speeds. as a joke i thought i would try play Halo 3 online not expecting it to work and expecting very bad lag or to get kicked off.

but it worked fine i had very little lag no more then at my mates place who only has 512kb broadband.

are the xbox live servers hosted by telecom or was i just lucky? does anyone have an explanation as to why its working.

dont get my wrong im not complaining, i hope it lasts as my live runs out on the 19th and i get my fullspeed broadband back on the 20th, it just puzzled me that it was even possible. the market place does not work for me, nothing loads.

 i used to play forza 2 online when i was on xnet with capped upload and it was almost unplayable at times. i understand the different type of game will play a part.