I need help in trying to figure out why my network connection goes to crap when I’m on Teams calls. It’s an audio only call and gets super choppy and delayed.

  • Mac Studio (M1 Max - 64 GB RAM) - All apps are up to date and current
  • Connected via ethernet (no Wifi)
    • Mac – (10gb cat 6a) --> Switch – (10gb cat 6a) --> pfSense – (10gb cat 6a) --> Frontier ONT – 2gb Fiber
  • I have iStats running in the menu bar and never see it get over 1 Mbps on calls, so I’m not overloading the connection
  • I have a docker container running on another machine doing network checks and pings never spike during the poor connection time period
  • I don’t see anything on the pfSense side showing load that would cause issues.

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I feel like it’s something on the machine locally causing the slow down, but I’m not sure where I should look.

Any good macOS network / performance monitoring tools I could run while on a Teams call to see what’s causing the issue?