Just encountered a strange phenomenon today. I just received my brand new laptop (Alienware M17 R3) and was finishing the setups and thought I should install the Battle.et APP and WoW game.
Upon installing WoW, I noticed that the download speed was going at a 6.0Mbps crawl. This caught my attention and I thought there was something wrong with my new laptop or maybe my ISP. Everything checkout when I turned off the Battle.net APP and stopped the download. But as soon as I opened up the battle.net app and restarted the download… the internet again slowed to a crawl.
I have changed no setting on my laptop or the battle.net app at all. I am using the default settings and I am directly connected to the gateway modem by way of wire. It also does the same thing whenever I am using WIFI.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Have you tried the tips listed here?
This is a brand new laptop out of the box today. I ran all the updates for everything I could think of. Also, remember that I posted that I am directly connected to the gateway modem.
Sounds like you need to change the setting in your battlenet app to not throttle download speeds.
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@ Thëödïcüs
What Jetsum said is exactly what I was leading you to read.
Problem went away and I never changed any setting. That it was just weird. Thank for the replies. Please close topic.
I know this is late on topic. But I just had the same experience, but with a brand new gaming laptop. After the usual computer set up and updates, wow is the first thing I downloaded. It took 13 hrs to download. From 5 pm to 6:30 am. I did do to the limit bandwidth and it didn’t help. I have had multiple computers in the past. All if which were not gaming computers and I didn’t have this issue. I can say, it was very frustrating. But it finally got done.
I had the same problem. Struggled to even open a webpage with it open.
The Bnet app made my new machine slow to an absolute crawl and took forever to even open up, much less start the game and use portals. I did what Blizz suggested here:
to no avail.
The only solution that worked for me - immediately - and had my machine back to normal was to create a shortcut of the WoW.exe on the desktop and log in from that - not the bnet launcher/app.
Perhaps it’s because the app seems too busy being a flashing, lag-inducing electronic billboard advertising superfluous stuff we’re not looking at when we’re playing the game anyway - who knows - but until it’s fixed, I simply can’t use it anymore. It’s a machine killer.