diff --git a/lib/helper/Puppeteer.js b/lib/helper/Puppeteer.js
index 3a23b5f7f..eed4984d2 100644
--- a/lib/helper/Puppeteer.js
+++ b/lib/helper/Puppeteer.js
@@ -2591,7 +2591,8 @@ class Puppeteer extends Helper {
    *
    * {{> stopRecordingTraffic }}
    */
-  stopRecordingTraffic() {
+  async stopRecordingTraffic() {
+    await this.page.setRequestInterception(false)
     stopRecordingTraffic.call(this)
   }
 
diff --git a/lib/helper/network/actions.js b/lib/helper/network/actions.js
index e89ba7ed2..6be1c1ebc 100644
--- a/lib/helper/network/actions.js
+++ b/lib/helper/network/actions.js
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ async function seeTraffic({
     throw new Error('Missing required key "url" in object given to "I.seeTraffic".');
   }
 
-  if (!this.recording || !this.recordedAtLeastOnce) {
+  if (!this.recordedAtLeastOnce) {
     throw new Error('Failure in test automation. You use "I.seeTraffic", but "I.startRecordingTraffic" was never called before.');
   }
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ async function seeTraffic({
 }
 
 async function grabRecordedNetworkTraffics() {
-  if (!this.recording || !this.recordedAtLeastOnce) {
+  if (!this.recordedAtLeastOnce) {
     throw new Error('Failure in test automation. You use "I.grabRecordedNetworkTraffics", but "I.startRecordingTraffic" was never called before.');
   }
 
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ async function grabRecordedNetworkTraffics() {
 function stopRecordingTraffic() {
   // @ts-ignore
   this.page.removeAllListeners('request');
+   // @ts-ignore
+  this.page.removeAllListeners('requestfinished');
   this.recording = false;
 }
 
diff --git a/test/helper/webapi.js b/test/helper/webapi.js
index 4705eae67..cd9b58b39 100644
--- a/test/helper/webapi.js
+++ b/test/helper/webapi.js
@@ -1703,6 +1703,16 @@ module.exports.tests = function () {
       expect(traffics.length).to.equal(0)
     })
 
+    it('should stop the network recording', async () => {
+      await I.startRecordingTraffic()
+      await I.amOnPage('https://codecept.io/')
+      await I.stopRecordingTraffic()
+      const traffics1 = await I.grabRecordedNetworkTraffics()
+      await I.amOnPage('https://codecept.io/')
+      const traffics2 = await I.grabRecordedNetworkTraffics()
+      expect(traffics2.length).to.equal(traffics1.length)
+    })
+
     it('should see recording traffics', async () => {
       I.startRecordingTraffic()
       I.amOnPage('https://codecept.io/')