Hey everyone, hoping someone here has run into this. Whenever I have a game and Discord running together on my laptop, both crash and disconnect at the same time roughly every 10 minutes (not perfectly regular, but close). After a few seconds they reconnect on their own and everything's fine again until it happens again.
It only happens on my laptop, my phone and tablet on the same Wi-Fi never have this issue, and it seems tied specifically to having Discord open alongside a game. This started at the beginning of the school year with zero problems and gradually got worse over time, so I suspect I changed some Wi-Fi setting on my laptop at some point trying to "optimize" something, but I honestly can't remember what. A normal speed test shows perfectly good results, so it's not a bandwidth issue.
So far I've done a full Windows network reset, updated the Wi-Fi driver, disabled power saving on the Wi-Fi adapter, checked the preferred band and wireless mode, lowered roaming aggressiveness and disabled background scanning, flushed DNS and reset Winsock/TCP-IP, ruled out a rogue proxy or weird hosts file entries, uninstalled any network booster software, confirmed it happens whether plugged in or on battery, tried disabling Discord's QoS setting (turns out it's been removed from the client), and disabled all of Malwarebytes' protections to rule that out. None of it changed anything. I also ran a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8 during a crash and it stayed completely stable with no timeouts or spikes, which makes me think it's not a general internet/Wi-Fi signal problem but something more specific, maybe UDP traffic getting interrupted somewhere without affecting basic ping.
Plz help me, it's unplayable
Source: r/discordhelp · by /u/Competitive_Net_3357