WoW causing computer network problems

[Zlaps-pyrewood-village]

Hello, i have an almost new lenovo legion 5 pro laptop. I use it to play World of Warcraft, and other things. I have a 250mb/s fiber connection.

I have been experiencing ingame freeze lag sometimes, and at the same time discord sound distortion which means its not only in the game, but also discord.

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I have reinstalled everything on my computer yesterday, and i changed my router but the problem remains.

When this starts happening i tab out of game, and do a bandwidth test it shows 5-8mb/s instead of the usual 250mb/s. My phone is on the wifi network also and it shows 200mb/s. At this time i also disconnected from wifi and ran a cable straight from the router to computer and the same result.

​This is where it gets interesting, if i tab out from WoW and shut the game off my bandwitdh test again shows 250mb/s. I have tried this 4-5 times now and the same every time.

I do the first bandwidth test, shows 3mb/s and rightclick wow and quit program and a few seconds later the bandwidth test shows 200mb.

Can someone please help me, as this is driving me insane. I spent all this money on my laptop and it wont work properly.

Sorry about the long post.

Thank you.

[Deliria-aggramar]

I am going to assume you are running retail WOW (not Classic) although you don’t say.

Firstly, has WOW fully downloaded and installed ? It becomes playable but continues to load data in the background if you wish and this could be part of the problem. I suspect it’s not that but it’s worth flagging this up.

Secondly, are you running WOW without addons ? If not, then I would suggest your first port of call should be disabling your addons and resetting your WOW Interface. You can see how to do this here:

Resetting the WoW User Interface

[Grelier-sporeggar (Grelier)]

In addition to what Deliria says, make sure to check if your network driver has updated drivers available either from Lenovo’s site or directly from the card/chip manufacturer…