I recently moved to college. I am on a partial T3 and I was wondering how I might setup "My Connection" so as to prevent the frequent 5000ms pings I have while in game. If there is anything I can do outside MW4 that would be helpful as well.
Thanks,
PhalkonZ

You need to find out where the latency is coming from. Use something like traceroute to see all the hops between your machine and the game server. Some where in the results you may see the hop that is introducing the latency. The other thing you need to sort out is the topology of the LAN you are on. Need to find out what type of hubs or switches you are connected to. If the local LAN is having a lot of collisions you would have to work with the network admin to attempt to segment the LAN.

First thing is to figure out where the bottle neck is and what the topology is. No magic bullets to improve latency with out some detective work first.

Bah, shoot first, ask questions later

I've set up a few network controls for Uni's and in particular, bandwidth controls. Often, certain nets *cough, dorms, cough* are targeted with restrictive bandwidth policies that purposefully introduce latency and total bandwidth available over a length of time to quietly discourage online game playing, file down/up loading, etc. It never affects normal email retrieval or net surfing, so it's easy to implement without creating rules or policy that have to be debated and published. Packeteer is such a product that is selling VERY well into Uni's doing just this.

Running those traceroutes I think you'll find that your problem is less than 3 router hops away. And no, there is nothing you can do about it other than find an alternative network access source and that's out of scope for this discussion.

I think there's a guide on the NBT site, if you're talking about setting it up in the game options. Different settings for xDSL, Cable etc, is this what you mean?