My experience is that 99/100 matches there is at least one red bar player.
Also from my experience i can say that one of those red bars is the host.
And the host has red bar, because everybody is playing on his connection.
Probably he has a very good ping, but too poor bandwidth for all players to play on. That's why red bars are mostly MVP's- they are hosting, so nr. 1 connection which counts.
This is the reason that after 2 years there are still red bars, every match......Bungie won't ban them, because they know it's P2P's matchmaking-system's fault.
Everybody knows that when you have very bad internet (red bar), you can't make a kill. Have tried it myself.
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I always wonder how many actually lag switch? When you are ahead in points then whole other team suddenly drops to yellows and reds making them impervious to bullets and melees, then go back to green at the end of the match when they have caught up to win. I have no idea who actually is cheating, but I report people that go red to green and ice skate across the map.