Hi all.
My current ISP is AT$T (I put the money sign because thats all they care about) and we pay for 6Mbps down and 1 or 2Mbps up all over DSL.
Recently I convinced my Grandfather to switch to our semi-local (I think?) ISP Brighthouse Networks (knowing my luck they're probably owned by comcast or some shit lol).
He finally decided we would switch when he got a pretty good price offering from them in the mail. We already have standard cable through Brighthouse but our home phone and internet come through AT$T. So we will be ordering at least 30Mbps down and probably half that up from Brighthouse soon.
That's where the question comes in: We only have a DSL modem, a super old SpeedStream issued to us by AT$T probably before I was born. Obviously, I need a cable modem since Brighthouses internet is cable-based. I'm fairly sure Brighthouse will offer us one for some arbitrarily high price, but I'm not sure we should take it or not?
I know that ISP issued routers are a no-go, and I'm definitely not letting him accept a router from them, but I'm not sure if modems are any different? Would I be okay to take Brighthouses modem? Will it be under-preforming and over-priced? Maybe even just over-priced?
If I shouldn't take theirs, can you suggest one for me to look at that is under like $80 or at least point me in the right direction for finding one?
Thanks in advance, ~Tas