Slow Internet while ESO is running

Aitako

Hi Everybody,



after about 3 years of break i am back to eso and i have really bad Internet while the ESO client is running. If i close it, internet speed goes up to normal again.

I have internet with 400mbit with cable, wlan is from 160mbit to about 200mbit.
It doesnt matter if i am connected with cable or wlan, when i start ESO client, connection speed from my PC to my Network goes down to about 8mbit download and 0,2 mbit upload.

I have a Lenovo Legion win 11 home, AMD Ryzen 5 5600H, Nvidia GPU RTX 3070 laptop edition and 16 GB RAM.

In no case, my Laptop is full utilized, the fans dont even get loud.

I already tried tools, to use my laptop to 100% capacity, graphiccard or CPU doesnt matter, internet speed stays on its normal speed of 400mbit.

I tryed different games and Baldurs Gate 3 seems to make the same Problems. Other games dont matter, Cyberpunk, Starfield etc.

When ESO or BG3 is running my internet is really limited to the 8mbit or less, Firefox builds the pages extremely slow, elderscrolls online keeps lagging and Steam download is also so slow. So my PC uses the maximum 8 Mbit but the network itself still has 392mbit left.


I have completely reinstalled my laptop and the problem still occurs.

Does anyone have any help?

ItMustBeThursday

Your laptop is a gaming model right? A lot of gaming systems come with special software to prioritize network traffic for the game.

It doesn't always work as anticipated, the software on my old computer made it so a new game would run at 10% speed because it thought it was something else

Aitako

OMG thank you so much, i deactivated it in the Lenovo software, restarted ESO and the problem is gone.

Never thought it could be this easy. I will test it some more hours but i guess it was the problem.

ZOS_Bill

We appreciate the help that has been provided to the OP. Now that this issue has been resolved, we will be closing the thread going forward.