What is a good modem?

[Guest]

My relative got a new apartment & he's getting internet soon. 
He wants to play PC games on Steam & his XBOX one. 
He's the only person in the apartment. 

What's a good cheap modem? He is planning to use Ethernet for his PC and xbox will use wifi. I think Routers are for wifi, not modems. 
Its primary purpose is to play multiplayer games. 
Also what is a good recommended MBPS speed? He's thinking of getting 10 as it is the cheapest. Otherwise he says the company's next highest is 30 MBPS speed. My house has 120~ download & 100~ upload so I can't gauge internet speeds. 

[beersykins]

10 is pretty limited in this day and age.

 

I assume this is cable service?  Something like the sb6183 is relatively inexpensive for a cable modem and has room for growth.

 

I take it he also needs a router?  Most home routers provide wifi but also provide NAT and an internal switch for wired clients/computers.

 

Archer c7 are pretty well received, it would help to have a total budget.  I would expect as low as possible but cheaping out generally leads to a poor experience.

[kittyducky06]

33 minutes ago, fpo said:

My relative got a new apartment & he's getting internet soon. 
He wants to play PC games on Steam & his XBOX one. 
He's the only person in the apartment. 

What's a good cheap modem? He is planning to use Ethernet for his PC and xbox will use wifi. I think Routers are for wifi, not modems. 
Its primary purpose is to play multiplayer games. 
Also what is a good recommended MBPS speed? He's thinking of getting 10 as it is the cheapest. Otherwise he says the company's next highest is 30 MBPS speed. My house has 120~ download & 100~ upload so I can't gauge internet speeds. 

ok the person before me made good points and if he is looking at 10mbs then the one you rent from your ISP is probaly fine but if you dont want to rent follow the man before me.

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, beersykins said:

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Thanks for getting back to me! He said it has COAX cables.

He said he would need a modem & a router. If there's a 2 in one, that might be beneficial. 

Would you say that the router and modem you listed would be a good combo? 

He just doesn't want to buy things he doesn't think he needs. 
What would be a good MBPS speed? 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, kittyducky06 said:

ok the person before me made good points and if he is looking at 10mbs then the one you rent from your ISP is probaly fine but if you dont want to rent follow the man before me.

My relative doesn't want to rent anything. It's like 150~200 dollars a year to rent these things from the company. 

Any recommended MBPS rating? He wants to play PC games & xbox games. 

[kittyducky06]

2 minutes ago, fpo said:

My relative doesn't want to rent anything. It's like 150~200 dollars a year to rent these things from the company. 

Any recommended MBPS rating? He wants to play PC games & xbox games. 

i would go for some thing around 50-100 but it also depends if he is streaming in 4K but also speed only maters to some extent with video games latency to the node and game servers is more important than speed

[Guest]

1 minute ago, kittyducky06 said:

i would go for some thing around 50-100 but it also depends if he is streaming in 4K but also speed only maters to some extent with video games latency to the node and game servers is more important than speed

If he streams it's likely youtube or netflix. 
His TV is 1920x1080 & his gaming monitor is 900p. 

I think he'd mostly just be playing a game or streaming. 

[kittyducky06]

5 minutes ago, fpo said:

If he streams it's likely youtube or netflix. 
His TV is 1920x1080 & his gaming monitor is 900p. 

I think he'd mostly just be playing a game or streaming. 

i believe you can also change you speed mid contract so if he want to upgrade he can

 

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, fpo said:

Thanks for getting back to me! He said it has COAX cables.

He said he would need a modem & a router. If there's a 2 in one, that might be beneficial. 

Would you say that the router and modem you listed would be a good combo? 

He just doesn't want to buy things he doesn't think he needs. 
What would be a good MBPS speed? 

Modem wise I have a SB6141 which has been solid. Though its an older 8x4 modem, so it might be more beneficial to get the SB6183 or the CM600. To be clear these a just standard cable modems with out routers built in. But those are the ones I see suggested every where. OH stay the hell away from the SB6190 its defective, actually all cable modems with the Intel Puma 6 chip are defective. You will want to tell your firend that he needs to verify what modems will work with the ISP. My ISP provides an interactive list where you put your service tier in and its gives you what customer owned modems are supported. 

 

Speed wise depends on the usage. More devices used at once the more bandwidth you will need. I think 10 Mbps is slow as fuck. Id say 30Mbps should be ok. 

 

Router wise its hard to say. Id say at least an 802.11AC router. The TPLink Archer C7 is not bad, not a lot of features, but its AC, has decent range and decent speed wireless wise. I personally have the Synology RT2600AC, it performs well but for $200 it should. TP Link has some good budget router, Ive heard good things about ASUS and Netgear as well.