Penny Arcade is a popular webcomic that once gave Xbox Halo a mock "Game Of The Year" award accompanied by an image of a toilet to express their feelings about Halo's repetetive level design (what, did they play nothing except The Library?) and then came around later, after having played multiplayer and seen the Halo 2 announcement trailer (they're such scrubs). Tycho today mentions that he plays a bit of PC Halo online, when he isn't playing Crimson Skies:

By my lonesome, I sometimes jump on to the Halo demo and try to figure out whether or not I like it. I don't have the performance issues that I often read about, at least not graphically, but the networking on that game is really, really variable. You can play on a server that makes you wonder what they were thinking even putting it out one minute and then get on something smooth that reminds you of late-night Xbox LANs on Blood Gulch. The ping doesn't seem to indicate shit. It would be like if the server browser had a column for "Mint" and then some servers had it and some servers didn't. Ping is like that in Halo PC. I have no idea what it is supposed to represent, and even if I did know I wouldn't know how to detect the presence of that quality in a first person shooter. It might be best to focus your time on dedicated servers, as you would in Battlefield, but there's never been a slot open on one of those since the demo was released.

Somebody give him the password to one of the HBO servers or something.