no offense, but i'm not convinced it's my connection. I'm ocd enough that i can tell when i'm lagging because i start to stutter; these lag spikes are more severe and are more flatout freezing for several seconds, and/or, while running, bouncing back to where i was a moment ago.

these spikes almost never happen when server pop is less than 14+ per side.

could there be some kind of blocking process on the server? Rotating logs? Defrag process? Reporting stats to GameMe? Reporting stats to valve?

thank you for being so attentive to this, by the way.