This article is for administrators.To learn how to set up and manage your own meetings, go to the Meet help center.
To provide high-quality meetings with Google Meet, you need to set up your network so that Meet can efficiently communicate with the Google infrastructure.
You should:
- Make sure Meet traffic has a short path to the internet.
- Avoid proxies, packet inspection, protocol analyzers, and quality of service (QoS).
- Measure and optimize latency, bandwidth, and your Wi-Fi network
Set up your network
Step 1: Allow access to Google IP address ranges- For media (audio and video), set up outbound UDP ports 3478 and 19302–19309. If you want to limit the number of Chrome WebRTC ports being used, see Chrome WebRTC UDP Ports setting. Alternatively you can limit those ports via your firewall.
- For web traffic and user authentication, use outbound UDP and TCP port 443.
Notes:
- These ports are allowed without any IP limitation.
- TCP will be used if these UDP ports are blocked.
- Sustained use of TCP or proxied TCP by any participant can degrade overall meeting quality.
The core Google services need full network access. If there are restrictions or filtering policies for users on your network, give network access to the HTTPS endpoints.
Note: If you're using Google Meet hardware, please also review the networking requirements for ChromeOS.
Domains for static resources
- clients2.google.com
- clients4.google.com
- clients6.google.com
- www.gstatic.com
- fonts.gstatic.com
- lh3.googleusercontent.com
- meetings.clients6.google.com
Domains for API endpoint connectivity
- accounts.google.com
- apis.google.com
- meetings.googleapis.com
- meet.google.com
- apps.google.com
- jamboard.google.com
- docs.google.com
Domains for live streaming
- stream.meet.google.com
- youtube.googleapis.com
- www.youtube-nocookie.com
- googlevideo.com
* Optional
- www.google.com
- feedback.googleusercontent.com
* Meet feedback functionality is loaded from URLs starting with https://www.google.com/tools/feedback and https://feedback.googleusercontent.com/resources/
Allow access to the following IP address ranges to enable audio and video media traffic. If your organization must support Meet traffic over port 443, add Meet SNI to your firewall or proxy allowlist to enable audio and video traffic over TLS.
Note: These IP addresses are different from the URIs specified in step 2.
Google Workspace IP address ranges
These IP ranges are used exclusively for Meet to identify meeting traffic used with your organization’s Google Workspace accounts and to deprioritize Meet traffic from consumer accounts.
Allow access to Meet's media servers using the following set of IP ranges and SNI:
- IPv4: 74.125.250.0/24
- IPv6: 2001:4860:4864:5::0/64
- SNI: workspace.turns.goog
Consumer IP address ranges
The following IP ranges are used exclusively for media traffic coming from participants who are signed in to a personal Google Account or not signed in to any account.
Allow access to Meet's media servers using the following set of IP ranges:
- IPv4: 142.250.82.0/24
- IPv6: 2001:4860:4864:6::/64
- SNI: meet.turns.goog
Your network should have enough bandwidth for concurrent HD video meetings, plus additional bandwidth for other needs, such as live streaming. Number of participants, screensharing, and other factors also affect bandwidth usage.
If your network doesn't have enough bandwidth, Meet lowers the video definition to fit your network's constraints. If your network doesn't have enough bandwidth to support video, Meet will use audio instead.
Calculate minimum Meet bandwidth requirements
To calculate minimum bandwidth requirement for your organization, multiply the average bandwidth per participant by the peak number of concurrent participants. Bandwidth usage is impacted by many factors such as; the number of participants, the layout used, the use of screensharing, or the presence of codec hardware accelerators.
| Average bandwidth per participant for large organizations | ||
|---|---|---|
| Meeting type | Outbound | Inbound |
| Video call | 1 Mbps | 1.3 Mbps |
| Audio only | 12 Kbps | 18 Kbps |
| Bandwidth per participant for small organizations or individuals | ||
|---|---|---|
| Meeting type | Outbound | Inbound |
| 720p video call | Up to 1.7 Mbps | Up to 1.7 Mbps |
| Group call | 250 Kbps and up* | Up to 4.0 Mbps |
| Audio only | 100 Kbps | 100 Kbps |
*Depending on the resolution sent
Estimate peak number of concurrent participants
If Meet meetings are a high priority for users, estimate that 20% of the users in your organization will use Meet at any one time. If Meet meetings are a low priority for users, only 0.5% of people might be in a Meet meeting at the same time.
| Priority of video meetings | Estimated amount of concurrent meeting participants |
|---|---|
| High | 10–20% |
| Normal | 1–4% |
| Low | 0.01–0.5% |
Bandwidth requirements per live stream viewer
If your organization live streams meetings, the ideal bandwidth for each viewing participant is 2.6 Mbps. The default high-quality video setting is 720p, which Meet uses if the participant has enough individual bandwidth.
If viewers don't have enough bandwidth, they can choose to reduce Meet quality.
| Meet video setting | Inbound bandwidth required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 720p | 2.6 Mbps | Default high quality setting results in the best user experience |
| 480p | 1.5 Mbps | |
| 360p | 1.0 Mbps | |
| 240p | 0.5 Mbps | Results in a poor viewer experience and is not recommended |
Network best practices
The following recommendations apply to typical office environments. A wireless engineer should evaluate more complex environments, such as manufacturing floors, areas with high levels of radio frequency (RF) noise, or sparsely covered spaces.
Carefully review the following considerations during the design, deployment, and operation of wireless networks used by Meet.
2.4 GHz versus 5 GHz RF bands
We recommended that your network force clients onto the 5 GHz RF band, if available.
We recommend you not deploy and operate Meet over the 2.4-GHz band of a wireless network as it’s typically heavily used. The 2.4-GHz band is also less reliable because it has 3 non-overlapping channels, typically high noise levels from nearby interfering networks, and extra interference from other devices.
Design and deployment considerations
For the wireless network, think about capacity rather than coverage.
- Manage cell size—Control cell size by the transmit power of the access point (AP). Deploy smaller cells where more devices are expected, such as meeting rooms and auditoriums, to increase capacity. Use bigger cells to provide general coverage on the office floor.
- Disable low rates to improve RF usage efficiency and force a client’s handover to the closest AP while roaming between APs.
If a wireless network’s SSID is available on both bands (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), the network should force clients onto the 5-GHz band.
To allow advanced features, such as seamless roaming between APs and proper RF management, a wireless network should be centrally managed and operated—not a collection of standalone APs.
Finally, perform a post-deployment wireless survey to confirm wireless coverage in the spaces where Meet is typically used.
Using WMM
To support reliable Meet communication over wireless networks, you should implement Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WMM).
Meet traffic needs to be classified by one of the following ways:
- The wireless controller or AP based on the Meet-specific protocols and ports.
- The Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) field value set by other network equipment. Use DSCP if you have sufficient trust in the network.
While full WMM support (including clients) is required to provide bidirectional QoS, you can configure it at the network level (on the controller or AP) to give significant benefits. Meet traffic should be assigned to the audio or video queue on the wireless AP or controller and be preferred over other classes of traffic.
We strongly recommend that you do not use proxy servers for Meet traffic.
Proxying traffic adds latency and can cause Meet to automatically reduce the video and audio quality. Meet performance is best when the latency between the client and Google back end is lower than 100 ms. Also, Meet provides the same benefits for video traffic that a proxy does, so a proxy isn’t needed.
If proxy servers must be used in your network
If you have a clear use case that absolutely requires the use of a proxy, understand that proxy servers can severely impact performance and make sure:
- To allow access to Meet traffic in the proxy configuration.
- Meet uses the Chrome Proxy settings.
- The network bypasses the proxy for Meet IP address and SNI.
The Socket Secure (SOCKS5) internet protocol is not currently supported.
We recommend that you do not run Meet using virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments, such as Citrix and VMware.
VDI environments create an extra layer of latency and complexity, which can slow Meet and result in a lower-quality Meet experience. While using VDI is not recommended, you can take steps to reduce the impact of VDI usage on Meet:
- Ensure Google Meet can detect that it’s running inside a virtual machine (VM) by enabling the Enterprise Hardware Platform API policy in Chrome. For details, go to Set Chrome policies for users or browsers and the API page.
- Allocate at least 4 virtual CPUs for each VM instance.
- Use GPU-enabled VM instances to accelerate video encoding and background effects, such as blur.
- Ensure sufficient bandwidth and low latency between clients, virtual desktops, and Meet media servers. For bandwidth requirements between Meet media servers and VMs, see Step 4 (above on this page). Find the required bandwidth for the connection between VDI clients and VMs by consulting your VDI provider.
If you must use QoS
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Apps
Google Workspace
- Click Meet video settings.
- On the left, select the organizational unit you want to manage. For all users, select the top-level organizational unit.
- Select a Default video quality option:
- Adjust automatically (default)—The bandwidth is adjusted for network and system conditions to provide the best possible quality.
- Limited video bandwidth—Uplink bandwidth is limited to 1 Mpbs by default to limit bandwidth usage.
- Audio only—Video is turned off by default. Users can click
to turn on their camera in the Meet browser window, but uplink video will be limited to 1 Mbps by default.
- Apply the settings:
- If the setting is for the top-level organizational unit, click Save.
- If the setting is for a child organizational unit and is different than the parent, click Override.
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