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Well its not your ISP based on those results.
There is a post about Relic adding in a "re-connect" feature to their servers in one of the recent patches.

So there is probably something going on with that.

http://www.coh2.org/topic/20733/game-freeze-followed-by-fast-forward/page/2#post_id202734

Its odd though, that for some its worse than others.

You might try just turning off all virus protection/firewalls for a few games and see if that makes any difference.

One theory might be that some security software on your machine is flagging this "re-connect" traffic as suspicious so it causes lag... Just a complete shot in the dark.

This sounds like a hard one to diagnose.
Ironically I run the game on a six year old Machine, and usually I don't have 10 second delays. The most I see is 1 second or so.

Does relic have some sort of tracing tool to log connection traffic in real time?

It might make the game run slower, but, at least if you didn't care about ruining your record that day, you could turn it on and see if you could re-produce the issue.

Its easy to point the finger at the internet because its a "public" network- and a lot of times that's the case, but, IMHO I think you need to figure out a way you can catch it real time. Maybe you already have that in house...

Without that real time capture of what is going on, I'm not sure dxdiag and event logs are going to be much help.

Another thought might be is that there is some sort of security software on people's machines flagging this "re-connect" traffic as bad, thereby causing massive slowdowns for some people. I.E. realtime virus protection, firewall, etc.

This is a total shot in the dark. A similar behavior happened to me once in another game (Wargame). I bet ya, its a weird ISP issue, and not the game, or your PC.

Go to this website and run the test.
http://www.pingtest.net/

Post your results here if you can.

Its not always about bandwidth, download speed.
Its often about latency, and if you can show your ISP bad results from this website, they will send a tech out and run some tests on their lines (or they should). I was able to get Comcast to do it.

Turned out that the problem went on for several days, but, they eventually fixed it with enough complaining- or some other problem was fixed in their network, because the results vastly improved once the problem was fixed.

I'm curious about a couple of things when it comes to scouting and recon in multiplayer.
I think a lot of my problem in games, is I just don't know what the heck the enemy is doing until I run right up on them (which is bad).

The most obvious question being, what are the best scouting units?
My assumptions are:

-Infantry, or some manpower unit, since they "might be" the most expendable
-A commander ability (i.e. plane flyover).
-Cheap Vehicles

I was browsing through coh2 stats, and the Sight stats are a bit confusing...

An example for a Pathfinder Recon unit (presumably from the Recon commander?)

Detect camo: 10.0
Extended radius: 90.0
Extended: true
Cone start radius: 0.0
Cone angle: 360.0
Inner radius: 1.0
Outer radius: 50.0
Inner height: -3.0
Outer height: 2.5

So what is this extended radius vs. Outer radius mean?
(I'm assuming extended radius means nothing if set to false).

Whats even more hilarious is that all OKW infantry seem to have an extended radius of 350, some of which are set to true (i.e. call in infantry and Obers), but, I'm guessing this doesn't kick in until some other variable happens- which might be Command Panther Vetting up... (otherwise my Jaeger infantry that pop out of a building would light up the whole map?)

If anyone has any light to shed on this, then, by all means

I'm sure any of you that are sports fans have heard of the concept of an athlete getting to a point to where the "the game slows down for them", or, "the game just comes to them".

In other words, they are able to make the right decision in a game quickly, fluidly, with confidence knowing that its the right one, and 9 times out of 10, they are successful, and become good players.

If you follow American football, its the Tom Brady vs. Mark Sanchez syndrome. Brady rarely makes a mistake, and well Mark Sanchez throws an interception at the worst possible time.

If its a new player, you hear, "The game has really slowed down for them, and they are really coming into their own."

Now for a COH2 example, and I don't have a replay...

But I watched a 2v2 last night where L E M O N (a.k.a. LemonJuice), was playing.
Lemon was OKW and he had another OKW teammate vs. 2 US (I think).

Lemon's team won hands down, and he built 1 Luchs. 1 Luchs!
He built all three buildings, zero vehicles (except the Luchs), zero support guns (you get the idea).
He didn't even pick a commander, or use any commander abilities (not one).

And... he lost a Sturmpio and the Luchs to an AT gun (after the luchs had wiped about 4 squads).
His team won 499 to 100 (other team surrendered).

Now I've read most of Lemon's guides to OKW, and I'm fairly new to ranked play in COH2 (maybe 20 games under my belt if I'm lucky), but, I know I'm not at that level (build one Luchs and win the game- and not just win, dominate).

I know this because I've lost about 6 or so games Random 2v2 games in a row with Ostheer and OKW.

Clearly, playing, practicing, and learning from mistakes is key.

And now for the point of all this:

How do you slow the game down, and let the game come to you?
(And please don't say- play the game on a Celeron with 1.5 Mb/s DSL).