u/Cameraven

Usually I teach on an old MacBook Pro (2015), and it has never had issues with ping spikes (the really high ones that freeze or disconnect you from the classroom). I have stable high speed wifi and get 400+ mbps speed, and it never randomly drops.

But recently I've had battery issues with the mac over the last 4 months and have had to switch to my backup laptops when the Mac acts up, which are windows computers. Both windows laptops experience high pings that freeze the classroom or disconnect me from the classroom completely. One computer started getting high pings every 3-4 minutes so I had to stop using it. The other gets a high disconnecting ping 1-2 times during the 25 minute class.

It is not my wifi, as I had the Mac shutdown during the middle of a class, with no pings during the class, and when I switched computers to finish the class I constantly got pings. I've been facing this issue over the last 4 months, where teaching on the Mac is fine, but the windows computers have ping issues.

I don't have firewalls on the windows computers. Is it just the windows app vs the Mac app? Did anyone else have ping issues and found a resolution?