I've made several posts regarding this. I've never heard back from a Mentor, let alone a Bungie employee on an answer. I've come to my own conclusion that the problem is down to the way Destinys' matchmaking works. If the host isn't in your country, other players connecting to the game (such as yourself or anyone else) will more than likely have a drop in their ping time, leading to a red bar connection. This also happens on a worse scale if the hosts internet connection is terrible as well. So even though Destiny announced not long ago that they were planning on banning players with a constant bad connection, those players you see with red bars have them because of peer2peer connections (citation needed as I'm not 100% about my guess on this (cough* [b][i][u]Bungie employee or Mentor, please reply *cough)[/u][/i][/b]), not their own connections being bad all the time. For example; typically, I play around 10pm GMT, and my ping always sky-rockets around that time until around 11pm-12am. So that's telling me that I'm usually matchmade with players from all over the world, rather than players in my area (Europe). I hope there's a fix for this soon, because it is super frustrating.