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Saturday, November 8th, 2025 1:58 AM

Video Calling always dropping? My speed always says 100% or laughably over

I get severe connection issues when I'm on zoom since I've moved (streaming will rarely get a circle of death, a sometimes web browsing gets too heavy). My router is right on the other size of the wall from where I take these video calls. There's no mirror, no furniture, just the a wall. But I live in an apt. I rent the xfi gateway since they suggested that when I was having issues at my old place (rats had actually chewed through a cable & other problems--I digress). But it's just impossible to take a video visit without at least 1 interruption, but often many. My wifi just can't handle it. What's with that? Can I do anything? I did have maintenance come out once when it was really really bad (they didn't come to my apt but my complex strangely enough, so I think it was a cable issue) and then everything was smooth for like 2 weeks. 

The app just keeps telling me nothings wrong. And I don't have time to turn off my wifi over and over and spend hours on the phone with different customer service bots and live agents every time this happens again for months until this maybe gets solved, that's what happened at my last house until i just nailed a lan cable to my ceiling leading from my router to my bedroom so I could have wifi on my actual computer. 

I'm sorry, I'm just so tired and frustrated. I had a job interview and the call dropped last week and I was so red-in-the-face embarrassed when I came back on that I stumbled over my words and felt disoriented. I shouldn't have to live like this when I pay this much for wifi, should I?  

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21 days ago

 

vanesudesu I am sorry to hear about the dropping of your video calls. We definitely want to help get this figured out for you. If you could please send us a direct message with your full name and service address. We want to run some diagnostics and help identify the problem. 
To send a "Direct Message" to Xfinity Support: 
Click "Sign In" if necessary 
Click the "Direct Messaging" icon or  https://forums.xfinity.com/direct-messaging 
Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon 
The "To:" line prompts you to "Type the name of a person". Instead, type "Xfinity Support" there 
- As you are typing a drop-down list appears. Select "Xfinity Support" from that list 
- An "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line 
Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window 
Press Enter to send it. 

 

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21 days ago

@vanesudesu @XfinityMatthew 

Please circle back here and post any possible solutions for the issue here in these open public forums so that all readers here may benefit from the exchange / info. This is in keeping with the spirit for which these public help forums were originally intended. Thank you.

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21 days ago

I had many troubles with Zoom over Wi-Fi that all went away when I plugged in an ethernet wire.  It might be worth a try.

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I appreciate it, but that’s what I did at my last home, I said “lan cable,” but meant Ethernet cable. I don’t want to resort to that, as the xfi gateway equipment is in the other room— the wire would run through my entire apartment (living room, hallway, bedroom). I’ve done it before, but I have popcorn ceilings here and I’d rather not go putting a thousand nails into the walls trying to fix something with a wire when I’m paying so much for wireless internet and the WiFi is right there 

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OK, but keep it in mind if you have to do another interview.  You could just lay it through the halls for the interview and roll it back up after.  Also you could experiment with positioning.  Before I switched to wired zooming I tried a lot of things with the Wi-Fi and I found that video calls on Wi-Fi were worst within about 10 feet of my router.  At round 15 feet, lockups became much less frequent.  (But not entirely gone like they have been with a wire.)

Also, ISPs take wired issues more seriously than Wi-Fi issues, so it's worth knowing so you can report if it still happens on wired.

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