Despite having a good WiFi or Ethernet connection, regardless of which network I'm on, if I join a Microsoft Teams call, all network connectivity stops working and teams simultaneously reports poor call quality and no network connectivity. All this while on an active call which I can see and hear. Here's a full description of symptoms. Every time I connect to a Teams call: Incoming call quality is ok. I can hear and see others. Outgoing call quality is very poor. Others say my voice is breaking up. If I unmute and speak for more than a few seconds, I am booted from the call. If I stay muted I can stay on the call indefinitely. I can share my screen just fine, I don't get kicked from the call. Teams periodically puts up a warning symbol in the call controls reporting poor connectivity. Teams puts up a blue banner stating that I have been disconnected from the internet. (Intermittent) Teams puts up a big overlay on top of the whole app saying I have been disconnected The call continues though all of this, including voice and video. All other network connectivity is broken (e.g.: Browsers cannot load pages, network drives stop working) Text chat features work fine (but not during calls, where they fail to work like all other network activity) The instant the call ends, all the symptoms stop. I can access network resources again. My wifi connection is fine. I've tested using wired networking and encounter the exact same issue. I've also tried various audio devices and disconnecting all peripherals as longshot solutions. No dice. I don't have anything weird on my system as far as I am aware. Teams works fine on other machines but not on my primary laptop. This issue not only makes Microsoft Teams itself nearly unusable, it knocks my whole system offline for the duration of the call, which is incredibly frustrating. I'm booting into Windows 10 on a 2015 MacBook Pro 13". I have all the latest patches for everything. I've seen two other people here who have what I think is the same issue as mine, but their question threads didn't have any solutions either, and now they're locked. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-teams-always-appears-poor-network/1a9ef89c-e495-4e2c-b108-d5b8702a54a8 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/teams-kills-all-connections/6b9dd383-df31-4bec-957a-41ee478eab3e Does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong? Any solutions? Any more info needed from me about my setup?

Hello from Austria, also here: Lenovo T490S, USB-C Dock, 5 minutes 'til complete network-outage. Fully patched. On one machine, updating the bios and chipset drivers bricked the whole WIFI system, there were no more WIFI connections of any kind possible. Also a downgrade of bios failed. Leonov really did change the mainboard of the 8 weeks old machine. Crazy, isn't it? BR, William Hello, from Austria too, we have a few Lenovo L13 with the ThinkPad Hybrid USB-C with USB-A Dock and the same problem with teams. The workaround helped us so far (WLAN.). Did anyone tried these new driver package, that is from 2020-11-20 and can give me a feedback if the problem still exits?: https://support.lenovo.com/de/de/downloads/ds502119-driver-for-thinkpad-hybrid-usb-c-with-usb-a-dock thankfully best regards Daniel

Good question, seems it was during the capturing.. Think it keeps the line alive. interesting

TEMPORY WORKARROUND!!Install WINpCAP or wireshark and your issue will be solved. It makes your NIC to accept all data... give me a thumb up if this worked for you Same problem here. T590 with 40AF doggystation. All up to date. Kills LAN with RTL chipset randomly & most of the time within 5 minutes. tried to upgrade directly from Realtek website Works on internal NIC and Wifi. seems something with the 8153b chipset by realtek This is interesting. Many months ago when I was working with Microsoft support on this issue, they had me run Wireshark to collect packets. I could never reproduce the issue for them when running Wireshark. I had a feeling that running the packet capture somehow was preventing the issue from happening. Now I know and can confirm this workaround does work. Do you have to be continuously capturing packets, once, or did you have to do something else to solve the problem? Yes I was capturing during the Teams meetings and didn't have any Ethernet drops. It was only when I was not capturing that I would experience the drops about 50% of the time.

TEMPORY WORKARROUND!!Install WINpCAP or wireshark and your issue will be solved. It makes your NIC to accept all data... give me a thumb up if this worked for you Same problem here. T590 with 40AF doggystation. All up to date. Kills LAN with RTL chipset randomly & most of the time within 5 minutes. tried to upgrade directly from Realtek website Works on internal NIC and Wifi. seems something with the 8153b chipset by realtek This is interesting. Many months ago when I was working with Microsoft support on this issue, they had me run Wireshark to collect packets. I could never reproduce the issue for them when running Wireshark. I had a feeling that running the packet capture somehow was preventing the issue from happening. Now I know and can confirm this workaround does work. Do you have to be continuously capturing packets, once, or did you have to do something else to solve the problem?

I have had Wireshark installed since before this problem occurred for me, so I can confirm this is not a fix for me.

Microsoft Teams Kills all Network Connectivity During Calls

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Despite having a good WiFi or Ethernet connection, regardless of which network I'm on, if I join a Microsoft Teams call, all network connectivity stops working and teams simultaneously reports poor call quality and no network connectivity. All this while on an active call which I can see and hear. Here's a full description of symptoms.

Every time I connect to a Teams call:

Incoming call quality is ok. I can hear and see others.
Outgoing call quality is very poor. Others say my voice is breaking up.
If I unmute and speak for more than a few seconds, I am booted from the call.
If I stay muted I can stay on the call indefinitely.
I can share my screen just fine, I don't get kicked from the call.
Teams periodically puts up a warning symbol in the call controls reporting poor connectivity.
Teams puts up a blue banner stating that I have been disconnected from the internet.
(Intermittent) Teams puts up a big overlay on top of the whole app saying I have been disconnected
The call continues though all of this, including voice and video.
All other network connectivity is broken (e.g.: Browsers cannot load pages, network drives stop working)
Text chat features work fine (but not during calls, where they fail to work like all other network activity)

The instant the call ends, all the symptoms stop. I can access network resources again. My wifi connection is fine. I've tested using wired networking and encounter the exact same issue. I've also tried various audio devices and disconnecting all peripherals as longshot solutions. No dice. I don't have anything weird on my system as far as I am aware. Teams works fine on other machines but not on my primary laptop.

This issue not only makes Microsoft Teams itself nearly unusable, it knocks my whole system offline for the duration of the call, which is incredibly frustrating.

I'm booting into Windows 10 on a 2015 MacBook Pro 13". I have all the latest patches for everything. I've seen two other people here who have what I think is the same issue as mine, but their question threads didn't have any solutions either, and now they're locked.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-teams-always-appears-poor-network/1a9ef89c-e495-4e2c-b108-d5b8702a54a8

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/teams-kills-all-connections/6b9dd383-df31-4bec-957a-41ee478eab3e

Does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong? Any solutions? Any more info needed from me about my setup?

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2020-12-17T12:48:30+00:00

Hello from Austria,

also here: Lenovo T490S, USB-C Dock, 5 minutes 'til complete network-outage. Fully patched. On one machine, updating the bios and chipset drivers bricked the whole WIFI system, there were no more WIFI connections of any kind possible. Also a downgrade of bios failed. Leonov really did change the mainboard of the 8 weeks old machine. Crazy, isn't it?

BR, William

Hello, from Austria too,

we have a few Lenovo L13 with the ThinkPad Hybrid USB-C with USB-A Dock and the same problem with teams.

The workaround helped us so far (WLAN.).

Did anyone tried these new driver package, that is from 2020-11-20 and can give me a feedback if the problem still exits?:

https://support.lenovo.com/de/de/downloads/ds502119-driver-for-thinkpad-hybrid-usb-c-with-usb-a-dock

thankfully

best regards

Daniel
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2020-12-02T01:03:32+00:00

Good question, seems it was during the capturing.. Think it keeps the line alive. interesting
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2020-12-01T22:59:30+00:00

TEMPORY WORKARROUND!!Install WINpCAP or wireshark and your issue will be solved. It makes your NIC to accept all data... give me a thumb up if this worked for you

Same problem here.

T590 with 40AF doggystation. All up to date. Kills LAN with RTL chipset randomly & most of the time within 5 minutes.

tried to upgrade directly from Realtek website

Works on internal NIC and Wifi. seems something with the 8153b chipset by realtek

This is interesting. Many months ago when I was working with Microsoft support on this issue, they had me run Wireshark to collect packets. I could never reproduce the issue for them when running Wireshark. I had a feeling that running the packet capture somehow was preventing the issue from happening. Now I know and can confirm this workaround does work.

Do you have to be continuously capturing packets, once, or did you have to do something else to solve the problem?

Yes I was capturing during the Teams meetings and didn't have any Ethernet drops. It was only when I was not capturing that I would experience the drops about 50% of the time.
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2020-11-30T21:48:43+00:00

TEMPORY WORKARROUND!!Install WINpCAP or wireshark and your issue will be solved. It makes your NIC to accept all data... give me a thumb up if this worked for you

Same problem here.

T590 with 40AF doggystation. All up to date. Kills LAN with RTL chipset randomly & most of the time within 5 minutes.

tried to upgrade directly from Realtek website

Works on internal NIC and Wifi. seems something with the 8153b chipset by realtek

This is interesting. Many months ago when I was working with Microsoft support on this issue, they had me run Wireshark to collect packets. I could never reproduce the issue for them when running Wireshark. I had a feeling that running the packet capture somehow was preventing the issue from happening. Now I know and can confirm this workaround does work.

Do you have to be continuously capturing packets, once, or did you have to do something else to solve the problem?
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2020-11-30T17:35:38+00:00

I have had Wireshark installed since before this problem occurred for me, so I can confirm this is not a fix for me.
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