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New to EE from BT, Zoom constantly freezes

Piper1862
Valued Contributor
Valued Contributor

I recently moved from BT (with them many many years), EE plan Essentials Full Fibre Gigabit. 
I am using the EE Smart Plus Hub and 3 Smart Wifi plus boosters.  Speed into the house is around 900mbps and upload 100mbps.

Everything is great apart from when I use zoom.   It constantly freezes, document slow to load and sharing a video eg YouTube is impossible.   All of this worked perfectly when I was with BT.   

When I first signed up I got one wifi booster, Zoom poor,  they then sent another (I asked for 2 more) but  advised not to have 3 as .if they are too close it can cause a problem'.    Zoom still not working properly.  Engineer booked.  Engineer said this is a know problem with Zoom and Teams and advised a TP Link PowerLine adaptor.. call EE and they will send one.   Called EE  wouldnt send a TP Linc until I had tried a 3rd wifi booster.   Booster ordered and he said 'you can have 3 boosters no problem', totally contradicting the previous advisor!!
3rd booster connected Zoom still not working.  Called EE yet again,  SAID his team leader (or similar)  will order a TP Linc as he didn't have the option to send one, it will take up to 72 hrs.   As expected 72hrs came and went nothing received.    Another call to EE and told I cant have a TP Link I have to hardwire!!   By this time I was fuming...  I bought a TP link and Zoom still not working.  Computer hardwired to router. guess what.. zoom still not working. 

And of course I am way outside my cancellation period so stuck with EE rubbish for 2 years.  
Looking on this forum there are a couple of other posts regarding a similar situation but they were last year.   Am I the only one struggling? 
Any suggestions please.

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Hi there and thanks for the suggestion. 

The BT Smart Hub 2 was sent back however after calls with EE today they have agreed to send me one so that we can reconnect this and see if it resolves the issue. 

Peter_W
EE Community Support Team

Thanks for the update here @StevieC22 😊

It'll definitely be interesting to see the results with this one, so please keep us posted on how you get on!
Peter

Ewan15
Skilled Contributor
Skilled Contributor

@Piper1862 Is it possible for you to connect your device that you use with Zoom to your router via ethernet (LAN) cable?

If you can try, Zoom again and see if you still have the issue. You might need to get an ethernet to USB adaptor from work if your device does not have an ethernet socket.

Hope this helps