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August 17, 2022
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Fake network problem / disconnect

  • August 17, 2022
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Good morning!


I'm math teacher at one of the universities in Odessa, Ukraine.

Currently I have Zoom lectures only on Wednesdays in the morning. Today I was unpleasantly surprised when I was not able to run my lecture.

After about 1-2 minutes from the conference start (now) or much longer time period (an hour ago) the organizer (me) is kicked out with a message box like attached ("Network connection error. Check network connection and try again"). I switched from WiFi to cable, I have about 0% packet loss and enough stable ping now. I know Zoom worked fine in much worse conditions (poor internet connection, packet loss about 20% and unstable ping).

Additional sympthoms:
Chat works 100%.
Users list works, when user turns on/off video or micro the status is updated for all users.
Screen sharing worked at the beginning, but failed later: others see only "User ... shared his screen" (sorry, the translation into English may not be 100% correct) but no image. And absolutely no sound both ways.

Zoom Status shows all systems are online and no issues detected, so I should report it. Also I pressed report button few times inside Zoom client but I'm not sure how these reports are processed.

This problem persists at 2 physically different computers connected to 2 different internet connections (cable and mobile, unfortunately the same company, one of the biggest in our country) simultaneously.

 

The last successfull Zoom usage was last Wednesday, Aug 10th.

Could somebody please check and fix this problem? I need to be able to use Zoom actively all following week.

 

Best regards from Ukraine

    11 replies

    Community Manager
    August 31, 2022

    Hi @Odessa_math and everyone else on this discussion! Please be aware that Windows XP is not a support OS according to our KB article on Zoom system requirements: Windows, macOS, Linux

     

    You can also look more into @Bort's reply in this discussion "Zoom meeting client for windows xp" on reverting to an older version of Zoom. However, please be aware that the suggestion is a 1-year old version of Zoom, so it is missing many security enhancements, bug fixes, and new features, so install and use at your own caution. 

    Newcomer
    September 1, 2022

    Thanks for your interest, This does not seem to be an issue with the desktop client as that has not been updated since June 2020. The issue occurred when a change was made beween August 7th and August 14th 2022. Until this date Windows XP with client 5.0.5 (26213.0602) had worked ok. I suspect the change has been implented to prevent XP users from using Zoom as I fully understand it is not included in the minimum system requirements. I had read the thread you mention regarding rolling back the client unfortunately the link provided is flagged as a non 32 bit programme.

    Community Manager
    September 1, 2022

    @bryanpet Zoom version 5.0.5 was a version that was released ~2yrs ago (June 2, 2020), looking into the release notes I didn't catch any verbiage as to discontinuing Windows XP support. As stated in our KB article, Windows XP is not a supported OS.

     

    I would suggest using the web client as it has most but not all of the features as the desktop client via a Zoom meeting, when at the time Zoom was version 5.0.5. If you go the web client route, you can look into this KB on Desktop client vs web client comparison