Working from home is often more complicated than it sounds. When your job consists mostly of typing away on your laptop and fending off a never-ending parade of Slack messages, it seems easy enough to do it from just about anywhere. But in reality, not every living space is set up to double as a workplace, especially when you consider the work-from-home internet speed requirements.

Internet services typically require minimum connection requirements, whether you actually know about them or not. Netflix, for instance, requires a connection of 25 Mbps if you want to stream its highest-quality content and a bare minimum of just 3 Mbps if you want to stream even standard definition content.

Once you start taking more meetings from home, it's no longer about whether you're going to get the true 4K picture quality when you're watching Stranger Things, but whether you'll be able to talk to your bosses, coworkers, and clients.

If you're curious about what kind of upload and download speeds you're actually getting, you can try a website like Speedtest.net or Netflix's Fast.com, which will give you a real-world look at your device's performance. Even if you pay for fancy 1000 Mbps speeds from Verizon or another provider, you likely won't get close to that, at least over a sustained time. Even though my connection is capable of 1000 mbps, my laptop regularly sees download speeds around 500 Mbps.) That's still very fast compared to the national average of 64 Mbps, but it also changes as I move around my house.