Hi there, I work remotely and part of my job is conducted in Google Meet sessions. I have a Nighthawk M2 that reports being connected via 4G (LTE B3/1800MHz with an RSSI of 59). This is a regular Vodafone mobile sim on a 100GB "Extra Large" plan (CG-NAT). I am in the Nelson city area currently but I move around a bit which prevents me from being able to use Vodafone's Rural Broadband.

I have noticed that the quality of Google Meet has degraded lately to the point where it is interrupting my work. The remote video streams turn off and I have trouble hearing and being heard. I have to switch to tethering off 2degrees or Spark on my phone which seems to alleviate the problem. I have an iPhone XR with Spark e-sim and 2degrees sim.

I tried disabling SIP-ALG in the router settings but the problem has persisted over the last week or two. The speed tests come back as ~5Mbps up and down which is not great but should be enough for a Google Meet call.

It feels suspiciously like a network saturation issue between Vodafone and Google.

I recognise that my use case is probably not very common. Has anyone else experienced network issues with Vodafone mobile?

Cheers