Wow kills my internet

[Drezna-mugthol]

I just reinstalled the game a couple days ago and this has been consistent. I never had this when I played before though.

Wow seems to disable the internet on my main gaming PC. It is hardwired to the router. Other devices on the network are unaffected. Wow itself is not impacted. But if I alt-tab out to use any other internet based software, it acts as if I’m not connected. It does not occur immediately and I haven’t noticed a consistent amount of time before it happens. This continues even after I log out of wow. The only way to regain internet access is to restart the PC.

I don’t even know where to begin troubleshooting on this one

[Zungar-silver-hand (Zungar)]

Common Technical Issues and Solutions

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[Madmortnova-atiesh]

i am having the same issue, all other blizzard games i have work with no problem… before i hit “play” on wow my internet speed is over 400mbs, once i hit play and wow starts to load. internet drops down to 15mb or less and will not log in… no other apps/games have this issue. i did find a sort of fix i will list below but it is only temporary after a day or so i have to re do the steps and sometimes it works other times it doesnt. blizz support said… ohh we cant help find assistance on the forums… so here i am… anyone with a permanent solution or what file i need to fix in the game let me know… here is the previous solution:

So I found a solution to this problem if anyone else needs this.

I actually found an almost identical case on the forums, late FEB, where a Blizzard customer support (Caterpepi) gave some steps to follow and a fellow user called Blazestrikes gave the information needed to clear this problem. I had to follow the steps from Blazestrikes exactly as he posted them and I could connect to the servers earlier today and also resubscribe.

The steps they gave that allowed me and other users according to the forums post to connect again is as follow

1. Reset modem/router
2. Command Prompt (Administrator)
3. ipconfig/release
4. ipconfig/renew
5. ipconfig/flushdns
6. netsh int ip reset
7. netsh winsock reset
8. restart computer

The above steps in those order allowed me to connect again without problems.