Airpods - what to do in case of very bad connection?

I'm on a business trip and thus in a hotel room. For about a year now I have been using the Apple Airpods on my Windows 10 laptop, and this has worked flawlessly so far. Relatively good sound quality, clean / stable connection without dropouts.

But suddenly this is not the case anymore. Constant sound interruption or even just distorted sound. Partial is sound only on one listener, or the connection breaks off completely. Airpods are fully charged, the case too and the laptop hangs on the net. Everything is on the same table. What is the reason for these problems, what can I do about it?

Bluetooth either on the laptop or on the Airpods broken. Of course it could also be the latest macOS / iOS update.

Just decouple and pair again then everything should go again, make sure that they are charged.

Not necessarily.

When the battery is empty, they will be automatically decoupled, but I know what you mean.

It usually helps to decouple and re-pair because he somehow got hung up and stuff like that.

Then you would probably have to delete the stored connection.