My Zwift set up has been plauged with dropouts for months now.
My set up.is a wifi booster, then a Kickr using Bluetooth to connect to my windows 10 laptop.
I get about 3-4 dropouts every hour riding. I contacted Zwift and they’ve got me using my android phone to act as a bridge between the Kickr and my laptop. But still I’m getting the dropouts.
Last night was a killer: lap 8 of 9 in a race and I suffer the virtual riders equivalent of a flat tyre (see the picture!)- the signal dropped.
So I need help.
Do I get a better WiFi booster (I don’t think this is the problem- however my phone does struggle to stay on the WiFi network).
Do I get an ANT+ dongal to connect a different way to the Kickr?
Or does anyone else have any better ideas? Give up? Go to the pub instead?
Are you using bluetooth headphones? I have tried four different bluetooth headsets, AirPods Pro and Aftershox Aeroplex for instance, and everyone of them caused dropouts. It sucks using wired headphones but it ended a source of dropouts.
One more vote for ANT+. It’s just that Zwift are struggling with bluetooth on Windows and ATV.
ANT+ is handling most dropouts on hardware level, meaning the ANT+ stick takes care of that, which results in more consistent behavior across operating systems unlike bluetooth. The disadvantage of ANT+ is ‘weak signal’, so you can also look into those extension USB cables.
