If you’re a Microsoft Teams user, you have (at some point) ended up with some poor network performance in a Teams meeting or call. But in the middle of what you’re trying to do, you don’t always have a way to tell if it’s you or the other person. Now, Teams provides a Network Strength indicator that can help you do some initial troubleshooting. Here’s what that looks like…
When you’re in a call and looking at your entry, you’ll see a Network Strength indicator in your name label in the lower-left corner. You will see either three, two, or one bar, denoting good, poor, or bad network connectivity:
In this example, I have good connectivity. If I ended up with two or one bar, Microsoft would suggest actions to help conserve bandwidth in order to maintain meeting performance. While this isn’t an in-depth network debugging tool, it’s a good way to get some initial information as well as steps you can take in real time:
If you don’t yet see this in your Teams client, it should be appearing by the end of February, which is the date by which is should be rolled out to everyone.
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