I just played my first Halo 3 team slayer. WTF takes so long to get a game when there's 32674 people on here?

NFC, that always happens no matter what, and when its ranked, they match you up with people with the similar ranks, so that can take a while too.

30,000 people are in slayer.... but likely 1/3 of those people are IN game.

After that, they match people of similar rank and internet connection, filtering through and finding teh players can take a bit

Ok, I get a message that flashes for just a moment. It goes something like this:

Any ideas? It wired straight to our wireless router.

It might just be xbox live I have that same problem with all my games but im not sure. Xbox has been really slow and laggy this month probaly because of xmas and stuff

Yeah, I was on yesterday, took FOREVER for games to get loaded up. Didn't matter which game either. Somebody was saying that they're cleaning up the system or something. I dunno, normally it's way faster.