My backup broadband is 25/3; speed tests come in at 35/3. On three weekdays in 2020, there was a major outage on my primary (gigabit) connection and our home network failed over to the backup. This is during COVID, with three family members on video calls simultaneously. We barely noticed each time. A solid, actual 3mbit up is perfectly adequate for home use if you don't go overboard.

> Having lived with a family fo 4 using ADSL, it was not fun when 3 people watched Netflix on their own screens, and having to update a game.

streaming netflix in HD instead of UHD is 5mbps. 5x3=15, leaving 10 free to download a game. pretty reasonable. the pain was likely that you didnt have a real 25meg pipe, or that there was latency or jitter. a true 25Mbps would have been enough.

> the pandemic and WFH

I think you could make a strong argument that 3meg up is no longer sufficient. we live in an era where duo, facetime, and conference call programs and ubiquitous.

i do not, however, think you could make the argument that changing the download Mbps target from 25 to 100 is the best way to spend billions of dollars in a market that no one would accuse of being saturated and highly competitive.