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mdob
Aspirant
Jan 24, 2025

AXE3000 conflict with Battlenet and Worlds of Warcraft

I am running a Windows 10 machine and installed an AXE3000.  The installation was particularly difficult as the device was unresponsive and conflicted with an onboard intel modem that I had to manually shut-off, although the installation software indicated that it would handle this task.  Eventually I was able to get the device to work and it is quite fast when it operates.

 

I was installing this device on a computer that my spouse uses to play Worlds of Warcraft and although the installation should not have affected Warcraft it did and apparently erased the data files for Battlenet that is required to start Warcraft.  Eventually I decided to uninstall Battlenet and install a new clean copy.  While that resolved the initial problem and I can now get the WOW start page, the things runs so slow that it is unusable.  Even when I switched the computer back to a LAN WOW will still not run at anything other than a crawl.  Youtube and everything else on this computer are blazing fast on either the LAN or the Adapter.  Any ideas on how to restore Warcraft to its former status?

 

Thanks,

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      mdob
      Aspirant
      Jan 28, 2025

      Please understand Worlds of Warcraft and Battle net were working perfectly on the machine immediately before it was shut down and restarted to install the Netgear Wireless Adapter.  It is likely that the install did some sort of damage and I suspect that what it might have done would be unknown to the game developers, hence my reason for raising the question here. Of course, I am pursuing it with Blizzard but was attempting to cover all bases that might have information that could help me on my options to resolve this issue. So thanks for your help.