As the topic states. When I try to connect to my Samsung s20 5G through USB tethering, the connection doesn’t last long before WoW does a semi-disconnect. By semi-DC I mean, I can still run around, I can type in chat and my abilities will be highlighted. But that’s it. I can not attack, loot, or interact with anything in game. It’s only my phone it does this too. I’ve used my husband’s LG Stylo 6 and have 0 issues. Perfect connection. I’ve tried swapping tethering cords, different USB ports, updated my phone, updated my computer, restarted both devices, updated the USB tethering driver on my computer… I was even speaking with a technician from my phone’s service provider for 2 1/2 hours yesterday doing resets. NOTHING works. It’s becoming quite frustrating. Where I live, it’s either satellite internet (2-5 sec lag on instant attacks) or USB tethering using a cell phone. This has been a constant off and on issue for a while, it being a steady thing since Thanksgiving. I haven’t installed anything on my phone or changed any settings, either.
Unfortunately, there probably isn’t going to be a whole lot Blizzard can do for you. That’s just how it works with tethering. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn’t. They tend to have very poor handling of rapidly sent packets (online gaming).
Maybe try disabling ipv6 in the WoW settings? Maybe see if the phone has some kind of packet flood protection firewall settings? I know my router was kind of flaky about online gaming because it would think I was getting dos spammed when playing games like WoW and lock my mac address out. Ended up having to change the settings to fix it’s threshold.
Not really sure of many options you can try, but I’ll try looking around and see. Oh and maybe try using mobile hotspot and connecting to your phone over wifi, instead of USB tethering.
Just tried disabling the ipv6. Didn’t work.