About 20 seconds, straight from your browser: download, upload, latency and jitter against the nearest Cloudflare edge — then a plain-English read on what your numbers can actually handle. Nothing is sent to Xaccel or stored.
Marketing sells you the first one. Your team's daily experience depends on all three.
How fast data reaches you: web pages, file pulls, streaming, cloud apps. This is the number ISPs advertise, and for most offices it's the one that matters most.
How fast you send: your video feed on calls, files to the cloud, backups offsite. Cable and fiber-to-the-node plans often cripple upload — and video calls are the first casualty.
How long a round trip takes, and how consistent it is. High or jumpy latency makes calls stutter and remote desktops lag — even on a "fast" 500 Mbps line.
| What your team does | Needs roughly |
|---|---|
| Email & web browsing | 1–5 Mbps down |
| HD video call (Teams / Zoom), per person | 4 Mbps up & down |
| 4K video stream | 25 Mbps down |
| Cloud backup & large file sync | 50+ Mbps up |
| Whole office online at once | 100+ Mbps down |
We audit circuits, Wi-Fi, firewalls and ISP handoffs for a living — and we hold providers to their SLAs when the slowdown is on their side. A slow office is usually fixable, and often cheaper than the "upgrade" your ISP is pitching.
