we should increase the upload speed, but 100Mbs is overkill. I had gigabit fiber for 3 years before I realized I never went anywhere near that. I switched to 100/100 now and no one even noticed, that's with the whole family working/schooling from home. I'm pretty sure 50/50 would be fine.
The biggest issues are data caps and upload speeds.
Not really considering this probably won't be updated for another 20 years
The 25/3 definition was set in 2015
It had been set to 4/1 in 2010
In 1996 the original definition was 200k/200k.
This seems to be a moving target and there is no reason to believe it won't continue to be updated.
[1] https://broadbandnow.com/report/fcc-broadband-definition/
It seems reasonable to “overbuild” infrastructure in this case.
It was surprising to see how often people upgraded their broadband plan or WiFi router after struggling to FaceTime with friends and family (who were likely on cellular), for example.
Rising bar won't hurt anyone and should force ISPs to create better infrastructure.
I think the big variable between now and the last time these were set is the great remote working migration of 2020. Zoom doesn't require 1080 quality, but you'll be sending as much up as down, so the 3mbps upload speed would suddenly feel pretty tight.
Under "normal" usage it did work, but then there were from time to time complications (e.g. OS update, Android update/installations, send/receive funny videos, etc...) and then when 1.5 years ago it became from time to time as well difficult to work from home (bigger SW-updates on the company notebook, more communication by antivirus/antispyware/antiwhatever) I gave up and changed to 1gb/1gb fibre => with what started happening last year I've been veeery lucky to get it just a few months before that the whole Covid situation made working from home a permanent situation :)
Uh, do you really have 10 people doing separate 4k videos? Its just overkill.
Upload on the other hand is far more important than people realize.
We have the base package, which is advertised at 50/50 and is generally right on target. Plus no data caps. I am extremely satisfied.
I did upgrade my router in the fall and was surprised how big of a difference it made for my speeds around the house, but we are still nowhere near saturating the bandwidth we have available with 50 / 50.
Granted, we are a family of 5 with 3 preschoolers that don't do anything besides watch shows a couple hours every evening.