Being host in Black Hops does not give you an advantage, trust me, I end up being the host a lot. You actually end up disadvantaged!!
Also I have my game search set for locale only which does seem to be working now, so don't get in games with Americans too often.
I just thought it was worth a shot and someone may have said do this or that.
I did drop my MTU from 1500 to 1478 and disabled SPI, which I saw on here somewhere that did give me slightly better download speeds and yes I did do a few tests