Age of Empire 2 DE Connection Issues

Age of Empires II: DE Ask for Help
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edited - DE not HD, Mbps not Mb/s
When playing Age of Empires 2 DE on my desktop computer recently it pauses and then catches up after around 10-20s. This happens every 5-10mins whilst playing, very inconvenient when luring a boar.

The last couple of times it has paused for longer and says “reconnecting”
Once it crashed out completing saying connection to Steam had been lost.

I checked my internet connection and it was fine, my speedtest in browser game me 30Mbps download and 0.09Mbps upload.

Any advice on how to troubleshoot this?
Thanks
Paul

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Not helpful, but if you can, why not just get AoE2 DE? It’s a lot better.

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I’m not an expert on internet connectivity and I’m not sure how much mulitplayer services need to run smoothly, but 0.09 mb/s upload is pretty low. For comparison, I just did a speed test and I have 12 mb/s upload.

Edit: sorry, i have 12 mbit/s upload. not sure how that translates to mb/s.

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That should be 1.5 mb/s according to an online converter.