My World Of Warcraft keeps crashing wifi

[ClassicMacBook36]

Whenever my friend tries to boot up battle.net or World of Warcraft on his laptop, it keeps crashing his wifi. What is going on?

[dany_boy]

8 minutes ago, ClassicMacBook36 said:

it keeps crashing his wifi

What do you mean by this? Does he lose connection? Does the adapter disconnect? Do the drivers crash?

[stealth80]

Probably driver related, is it only battlenet? Check firewall settings also but this seems odd. But then I had an issue years ago where everything worked fine until I tried to use teamspeak (ventrillo worked fine) - when ever I did it cause my game to crash

 

Turned out it was the onboard network, I had to use a PCI card and everything was fine - isolating that took weeks!!

[ClassicMacBook36]

5 minutes ago, dany_boy said:

What do you mean by this? Does he lose connection? Does the adapter disconnect? Do the drivers crash?

The network goes offline

[ClassicMacBook36]

2 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Probably driver related, is it only battlenet? Check firewall settings also but this seems odd. But then I had an issue years ago where everything worked fine until I tried to use teamspeak (ventrillo worked fine) - when ever I did it cause my game to crash

 

Turned out it was the onboard network, I had to use a PCI card and everything was fine - isolating that took weeks!!

yee only battlenet and wow

[linustouchtips]

get a new laptop for him or direct connect it

[ClassicMacBook36]

2 minutes ago, linustouchtips said:

get a new laptop for him or direct connect it

he already has a new laptop

[linustouchtips]

Just now, ClassicMacBook36 said:

he already has a new laptop

try another router 

[ClassicMacBook36]

Just now, linustouchtips said:

try another router 

are there any good routers you can recommend? 

[linustouchtips]

1 minute ago, ClassicMacBook36 said:

are there any good routers you can recommend? 

i have a netgear ac1750 gold works amazing but its outdated and expensive. 

[ClassicMacBook36]

3 minutes ago, linustouchtips said:

i have a netgear ac1750 gold works amazing but its outdated and expensive. 

k

[linustouchtips]

Just now, ClassicMacBook36 said:

k

get a dual band 

[NinJake]

It might be crashing if there's a large patch or update trying to download over wifi, try hard-wiring in until this completes.

[KyonEXE]

So if it's wifi.  I've seen weird issues with that.  see if plugging directly in will make it work for now.  if it does let me know.