How to Fix Google Meet Streaming Emergency Issues

One of the most popular video conferencing software, Google Meets, brings people together from remote work, to remote learning, and just virtual happy hours. It is a light and easy way to set up video calls over the Internet. But unfortunately Google Meet issues like streaming emergencies are just waiting to happen.

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 a Google Meet streaming emergency (Google Meet streamergency). It includes stuff like choppy video, buffering and Google Meets disconnects will happen.

This article explains how Google Meet streaming emergencies occur and how to deal with them. Avoid Google Meet streaming issues altogether with this simple solution.

Google Meet streamergencies - they just keep happening. What are you going to do to deal with latency, frozen screens, or even the Google Meets meeting getting disconnected?

First - check if Google Meet is down / service outage. Their service status page will confirm this. Spoiler alert: this is usually not the problem for the Google Meet streaming issue.

Here are the most popular causes for any Google Meet streaming emergency:

• 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• Your network equipment is out of date, both hardware and software.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 streaming 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 streaming emergency is prevention! - it's like every other real world emergency. The best prevention method to avoid Google Meet streamergencies is streaming over a fast, stable and secure Internet connection. A channel bonding VPN app like Speedify allows you to use all of your Internet connections at once for fast, stable and secure connectivity.

We recently tested Google Meets 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 cellular data that can be bonded. On a computer, there’s more flexibility about the number and type of connections.

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.