Guide

Internet Speed Requirements by Employer, Ranked Low to High

6 min read · Updated 2026-09-24

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Ask ten remote employers what internet you need and you'll get numbers that don't agree with each other, because they're not measuring the same thing. Some care about download. Some care about upload more. A few care about neither and just want the connection type right. This page is every number we've sourced, ranked, so you can see where your employer actually sits instead of guessing from a company-wide reputation.

The full ranking, lowest to highest

89 of the 100 employers we track publish a specific download minimum. Here's every one, ranked, with the upload figure beside it where the employer states one.

#	Employer	Download	Upload
1	CorVel Corporation	3 Mbps	Not stated
2	BlueCross BlueShield	4 Mbps (5 Mbps for video calls)	2 Mbps (3 Mbps for video calls)
3	American Home Shield	4.6 Mbps	4.6 Mbps
4	BroadPath	5–25 Mbps	2–10 Mbps
5	Kelly Services	5 Mbps	3 Mbps
6	Foundever (Sitel)	5 Mbps	5 Mbps
7	Hilton	10 Mbps	Not stated
8	WPS Health Solutions	10 Mbps	1 Mbps
9	Sutherland	10–50 Mbps	2–10 Mbps
10	Arise	10 Mbps	3 Mbps
11	Apple (Support College Advisor)	10 Mbps	3 Mbps
12	South Carolina 811	10 Mbps	3 Mbps
13	Alorica	10 Mbps	5 Mbps
14	Amazon	10 Mbps	5 Mbps
15	The Cigna Group	10 Mbps	5 Mbps
16	iQor	10 Mbps	5 Mbps
17	VXI Global Solutions	10 Mbps	5 Mbps
18	InteLogix	10 Mbps	5 Mbps
19	Vivint Smart Home	10 Mbps	5 Mbps
20	Cambium Learning Group	10 Mbps	5 Mbps
21	Williams-Sonoma	10 Mbps	6 Mbps
22	Ansafone Contact Centers	10 Mbps	10 Mbps
23	Teleperformance	15 Mbps	5–10 Mbps
24	Agero	15 Mbps	6 Mbps
25	Maximus	20 Mbps	Not stated
26	Clipboard Health	20 Mbps	Not stated
27	Transcom	20 Mbps	3 Mbps
28	Liveops	20 Mbps	5 Mbps
29	Startek	20 Mbps	10 Mbps
30	Carenet Health	20 Mbps	10 Mbps
31	Assurance IQ	20 Mbps	10 Mbps
32	CLEAResult	20 Mbps	10 Mbps
33	Alight	20–200 Mbps	20–50 Mbps
34	SelectQuote	20 Mbps	20 Mbps
35	PNC Bank	20 Mbps	20 Mbps
36	TTEC	25 Mbps	Not stated
37	Prudential Financial	25 Mbps	Not stated
38	Nelnet	25 Mbps	Not stated
39	DISH Network	25 Mbps	2 Mbps
40	EchoStar	25 Mbps	2 Mbps
41	CVS Health	25 Mbps	3 Mbps
42	Conduent	25 Mbps	5 Mbps
43	American Express	25 Mbps	5 Mbps
44	Liberty Mutual	25 Mbps	5 Mbps
45	Wayfair	25 Mbps	5 Mbps
46	Rentokil Terminix	25 Mbps	5 Mbps
47	Experian	25 Mbps	5 Mbps
48	Assurant	25 Mbps	6 Mbps
49	L.L.Bean	25 Mbps	7.5 Mbps
50	Humana	25 Mbps	10 Mbps
51	VIPdesk Connect	25 Mbps	10 Mbps
52	ResultsCX	25 Mbps	10 Mbps
53	Gainwell Technologies	25 Mbps	10 Mbps
54	Afni	25 Mbps	10 Mbps
55	Sagility	25 Mbps	10 Mbps
56	Evergreen Nephrology	25 Mbps	10 Mbps
57	Nationwide	30–100 Mbps	3–20 Mbps
58	The Hartford	30 Mbps	5 Mbps
59	Chewy	30 Mbps	10 Mbps
60	Fiserv	30 Mbps	15 Mbps
61	Pearl Interactive Network	40 Mbps	5 Mbps
62	Concentrix	40 Mbps	10 Mbps
63	Anthology	40 Mbps	15 Mbps
64	LabCorp	50 Mbps	Not stated
65	ModSquad	50 Mbps	Not stated
66	Southwest Airlines	50 Mbps	5 Mbps
67	U-Haul	50 Mbps	5 Mbps
68	Regions Bank	50 Mbps	5 Mbps
69	Allstate	50 Mbps	5 Mbps
70	Elevance Health	50 Mbps	10 Mbps
71	ibex	50 Mbps	10 Mbps
72	Erie Insurance	50 Mbps	10 Mbps
73	eHealth	50 Mbps	10 Mbps
74	American Specialty Health	50 Mbps	10 Mbps
75	AAA - Auto Club Enterprises	50 Mbps	10 Mbps
76	Propelus	50 Mbps	10 Mbps
77	Orkin	50 Mbps	20 Mbps
78	Capital One	100 Mbps	10 Mbps
79	MOHELA	100 Mbps	10 Mbps
80	Navient	100 Mbps	10 Mbps
81	GoHealth Urgent Care	100 Mbps	10 Mbps
82	Discover Financial	100 Mbps	10 Mbps
83	Enterprise Mobility	100 Mbps	10 Mbps
84	CONNECT, powered by American Family Insurance	100 Mbps	10 Mbps
85	Molina Healthcare	100 Mbps	20 Mbps
86	Advocacy Solutions	100 Mbps	20 Mbps
87	Inspira Financial	100 Mbps	20 Mbps
88	Velera	100 Mbps	30 Mbps
89	iRhythm Technologies	150 Mbps	50 Mbps

The floor and the ceiling

The lowest published minimum we track is 3 Mbps down at CorVel Corporation — barely more than what a single video call needs on its own. The highest is 150 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up at iRhythm Technologies, a genuinely fiber-class figure that most cable plans can't reach on upload at all. Between those two, the median employer asks for something a mid-tier plan clears without strain. The number is rarely the hard part of a tech check; the connection type is — see our guide to what a tech check actually tests for why.

Upload is where plans actually fail

Download is the number people check. Upload is the number that fails them, because it's what carries your voice and your screen share, and on cable, satellite and wireless plans it's a fraction of the download figure. A plan can advertise 300 Mbps and still fail an employer that wants 20 Mbps up, if the upload on that plan is only 10. Fiber is the one common connection type where upload matches download, which is why it clears the steeper requirements on this list without the upload figure being a separate fight.

Latency: the number almost nobody checks

Only 14 of the 100 employers we track publish a latency ceiling — most simply don't mention it, which doesn't mean it's not tested, just that it's not published. Among the ones that do, the tightest is 50 ms, tied between Teleperformance, MOHELA and Fiserv. The most forgiving is 300 ms, at Kelly Services. Fiber typically runs under 20 ms, comfortably inside every ceiling we've found; satellite's physics make it structurally unable to compete, and wireless fails these intermittently rather than consistently — which is worse, because it passes the check and then drops a call three days later.

#	Employer	Latency ceiling
1	Teleperformance	≤50 ms
2	MOHELA	≤50 ms
3	Fiserv	≤50 ms
4	U-Haul	≤100 ms
5	Transcom	≤100 ms
6	Afni	≤100 ms
7	GoHealth Urgent Care	≤100 ms
8	Anthology	≤100 ms
9	Agero	≤100 ms
10	Arise	≤120 ms
11	WPS Health Solutions	≤140 ms
12	Apple (Support College Advisor)	≤150 ms
13	Conduent	≤175 ms
14	Kelly Services	≤300 ms

What this means for you

Two things worth doing with this. First, find your own employer's row and compare it to your current plan's real upload and latency, not just the download number on the box. Second, if you don't have a wired option at your address yet, the size of the number matters less than you'd think — an entry-level fiber plan clears nearly everything on this page, so the question is availability, not tier. Check your address to see what's actually there.

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Common questions

The lowest published minimum we track is 3 Mbps down at CorVel Corporation. It's still a wired-connection requirement, though — the low number doesn't relax the connection-type rule.

The highest published minimum we track is 150 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up at iRhythm Technologies. Even that clears comfortably on an entry-level fiber plan, since fiber's upload matches its download.

The tightest published latency ceiling we track is 50 ms, tied between Teleperformance, MOHELA and Fiserv. The most forgiving is 300 ms, at Kelly Services. Fiber runs under both without difficulty; satellite and wireless are the connection types that actually struggle here.

No — 89 of the 100 employers we track publish a download minimum, and 14 of the 100 employers we track publish a latency ceiling. The rest either don't state a number or only specify the connection type (wired, no satellite, and so on) without a figure to hit.

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