I am also having connection issues. However, mine isn't simply lag. I login, am connected for about 30 seconds then lose connection to the mapserver on both east and west coast servers.
That is a completely different issue Krogoth. I'd recommend starting your own thread stating what the problem is, and give the results from running CoH Helper as it will give information about your system and the CoH installation and settings.
Then, post a log from running HijackThis. This will show what else is going on on your computer while you are playing CoH.
EDIT: Yeah, firewalls can do that. Be sure to check your router settings and adjust accordingly.
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When the client is able to re-establish the connection it will redisplay your location at the location held by the server.
Lag can be the result of problems on the servers, on your PC or anywhere in between so a lot more information is needed to identify the nature of it before anything can be done to fix it.
Latency is a measure of the time it takes a network packet to travel between cliet and server and is related to physical distance, link type and number of links involved.
A high latency connection will generally be seen as displaying significant levels of lag.
Areas requiring a large amount of graphical rendering will also tend to exhibit higher levels of lag - this relates to the graphics hardware on the client.
High loads on the server will again result in higher lag.
These are all very different causes and will have slightly different characteristics but all can be described as lag.