Evidence labels
Vendor requirement, planning target, and measurement are different
- Vendor guidance
- The app publisher's minimum, recommended, or maximum usage for a named resolution and meeting mode.
- Editorial planning target
- A rounded workload baseline used to combine simultaneous activity. It is not a vendor promise.
- Measured diagnostic
- One browser-to-test-endpoint path. It helps isolate a problem but does not measure the meeting vendor path directly.
Current first-party guidance
Match the app, direction, and meeting mode
Checked July 24, 2026. These are examples from the vendors' current pages, not interchangeable household speed tiers.
| Vendor scenario | Vendor-published bandwidth | Important scope |
|---|---|---|
| Zoom Web App, 1080p video | 3.8 Mbps up / 3.0 Mbps down | Zoom says usage adapts to participant network conditions. Zoom source |
| Teams group video, recommended | 2.5 Mbps up / 4.0 Mbps down per endpoint | Microsoft separates minimum, recommended, and best performance and says actual use varies. Teams source |
| Meet, 1080p individual guidance | Up to 3.6 Mbps outbound and inbound | Google publishes different rows for group meetings and organizational planning. Meet source |
Versioned editorial planning target
One active HD call in dataset 2026.07.24
Download
4 Mbps
Upload
4 Mbps
Planning ping ceiling
100 ms
Planning jitter ceiling
30 ms
This row is a rounded editorial baseline informed by Zoom's 1080p guidance. It is per active camera and is not a guarantee at the boundary. Add every simultaneous call and other activity using the calculator. The dataset was updated 2026-07-24. Download the versioned data.
Acceptance test
Diagnose the exact meeting that fails
- 1. Test from the actual room, device, network, and meeting hour. Keep a quiet baseline.
- 2. Repeat while the household has its normal call-time load. Note loaded latency, jitter, unsuccessful probes, and confidence.
- 3. Run the vendor's real test call or meeting with the same camera, layout, screen share, VPN, and participants when possible.
- 4. Compare Wi-Fi and Ethernet on the same device. Change one variable at a time.
- 5. Use the app's own call-health or administrator telemetry when available; it observes a different path than this browser test.
Do not apply blanket QoS, VPN bypass, or band-forcing advice to an employer-managed network. Zoom, Teams, and Meet publish different network guidance; follow the organization's administrator and vendor documentation.
Primary sources and versioned data
Source-checked July 24, 2026. Recheck the vendor page for the exact app, client, resolution, layout, and meeting mode.
- https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0058323
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/prepare-network
- https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/meet/prepare-your-network-for-meet-meetings-and-live-streams?hl=en
- https://swiftspeedtest.com/data/internet-speed-requirements/2026.07.24.json