I tend to agree that 25Mbps is a high threshold for &quot;broadband&quot;. If HD streaming on popular services only requires 5Mbps, it seems odd to require 5x this to qualify.<p>As the article points out, some families&#x2F;roommates share an internet connection—but many people live alone, and the definition should ignore this. And even for those who share, it&#x27;s pretty unlikely that there are 5 HD streams running simultaneously. And even if this does happen sometimes—or even every night—peak usage for multi-user setups shouldn&#x27;t be used as a threshold measure for &quot;broadband&quot; for all.<p>On the other hand, this definition will probably be with us for a while, and in time it will become more reasonable as a threshold. Perhaps definitions like these should be indexed in the same way that dollar thresholds are inflation-adjusted.