The quality of the Internet connection is what makes and breaks a Google Meets meeting. If that’s good, you will be able to enjoy fluent, fully detailed Google Meet calls. If you have bad connectivity, you'll definitely experience Google Meet audio not working or other related issues. It includes stuff like choppy video, buffering and Google Meets disconnects will happen.

Speedify can enhance the stability of your Google Meet audio and video connection by simultaneously bonding multiple internet connections. This means your device can utilize more connections at the same time: wired Ethernet, Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, Starlink, DSL, creating a more reliable and faster connection. By combining these connections, Speedify can effectively reduce lag, buffering, and unexpected disconnections, ensuring a smoother and more efficient experience with Google Meet.

This article explains how Google Meet audio not working issues occur and how to deal with them. Fix Google Meet problems altogether with this simple solution.

First - check your microphone and speakers setup on your device. Is the correct microphone device and speaker device selected on your computer?

If that's not the issue, then it's most likely something related to your Internet connection. Along with the audio not working, you might be experiencing latency, frozen screens, or even the Google Meets meeting getting disconnected.

In this case, first thing to do is check if Google Meet is down / service outage. Their service status page will confirm this. Spoiler alert: this is usually not the problem for Google Meet audio not working issues.

Here are the most popular causes for any Google Meet audio not working problems:

• Your microphone or speakers are acting up.
• Your ISP may be doing infrastructure maintenance work.
• A recent storm disrupted a backbone connection that needs to be fixed.
• Your network equipment is out of date, both hardware and software.
• You're sitting too far away from the Wi-Fi hotspot
• You're into a poor cellular reception area.

Google Meet uses significant bandwidth, especially for video calls. Your device is sending a complex set of data packets to the device of the person you are trying to talk to. And their device is sending a packet of data to you.

The flow of these packets gets interrupted if your Wi-Fi connection has a momentary blip or your cellular connection fluctuates. It can take a few moments for the data to catch up.

This results in Google Meet issues: calls where the audio cuts in and out, where the video lags, and where the audio and video don’t sync properly. 

Troubleshooting your Google Meet audio issues. These are the main steps:

1. Make sure Google Meet is up and running (see above).
2. Test your Internet connection. Is it fast enough for Google Meets video conferencing? You’ll need at least 2 Mbps upload and 2 Mbps download.
3. Restart your router / modem and the device you're streaming video on.

Here is a more detailed article on how to troubleshoot your Internet connection. The downside of this: it takes time - at least a couple of minutes - and you cannot not afford this when on a Google Meets call.

The real solution for any Google Meet audio not working is prevention! The best prevention method to avoid Google Meet problems is streaming over a fast, stable and secure Internet connection. An app like Speedify allows you to use all of your Internet connections at once for fast, stable and secure connectivity.

We recently tested Google Meet on a laptop and on a smartphone while running Speedify, simulating bad Internet conditions, which determine streaming issues. The results showed that Speedify was able to keep the average Google Meet video call bandwidth on both devices in a good range around the target bandwidth. And this happened both in situations where the connections were good and when one of them went bad.

Speedify achieves that by using a technology called channel bonding that allows you to use multiple Internet connections at once. On your smartphone – it’s the Wi-Fi and 4G / 5G cellular data that can be bonded. On a computer, there’s more flexibility about the number and type of connections, including Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, Starlink, DSL, wired Ethernet, etc.

Speedify also routes data when something happens to one of your connections. When you stumble upon a bad Wi-Fi hotspot, or your connection suddenly goes out, you will stay connected. Speedify intelligently and automatically reroutes your data through the other available connection(s) until you are connected again to both networks. Best of all, you don’t notice anything because Speedify works seamlessly.

The beauty of it is that Speedify does more than just manage your Internet connections. It is also a fast bonding VPN. It encrypts all the data you send and receive from your device. This helps keep your private information and conversations secure from digital eavesdroppers and cyber thieves.