TekSavvy - Not perfect but by far best ISP out there

If like me your ISP is TekSavvy then you may have received a nice rebate on your monthly fee's this month!  By the way, TekSavvy "rents" Rogers' infrastructure, this is important to know because it could lead to 1 drawback of switching to them, if you seem to have a lot of issues with Rogers and it's not your entire area but specific to your home than going to TekSavvy may not be a good idea...Rogers will definitely put your name at the back of the line when it comes to servicing your request!  I've not had any issue with just our house in 6 years here in Whitby so works for me!

We're in a Grandfathered plan, we get 60 Mbps down (this is essential if you have a few people in the house and each has 1 or 2 devices on the WiFi, each device takes part of the stream...last I checked my Router I think I saw ~10 devices! <For the hacker minds out there, yes all devices are ours haha> ) and 10 Mbps up (this is very useful if you want to make HD video calls or if you want to be a good P2P node), also we have a 400 Gb monthly cap, which I do make use of!

Most importantly, I have the best most stable modem out there (now I sound like Trump ;-) the Motorola Surfboard! Unlike Rogers or Bell, TekSavvy has been very good at letting their customers use virtually any Modem they want until recently...now it seems all their higher speed packages require this sub-par unstable Modem (technically this one is US version).

So while I still recommend anyone that can to go with TekSavvy (they offer much lower prices for equivalent speed/usage than Rogers or Bell and have great customer service), this new wrinkle (which I'm sure is Rogers doing as I think they get a cut of these modems) makes me hesitate on this great deal I just saw...I could switch to 100 Mbps down/10 Mbps up with Unlimited cap for $63.95 (that's not just an intro offer for a few months like you see on Rogers or Bell sites -- and that's just a few bucks more than I'm paying)!!  I'm checking with TekSavvy now but I don't think they will allow my modem (even though it's a DOCSIS 3.0 and can handle speeds to 300 MBPS +) to switch to that deal :-(

If that is the case, we'll stick with our deal for now and I'll keep researching that CISCO modem that's required for these new high speed packages.  They def get a lot of bad reviews but I think it's mainly cause many people try to use the Router component of the modem to save money instead of buying a good Router...as you might guess the Router part of the modem is a piece of crap.  I would recommend that nobody ever use the Router component of a Modem/Router combo but instead buy a good modem such as mine or something equivalent and use these types of Combo Modems in Bridge mode (ignores built in Router, can flow thru your better one).

At some point when they're offering 1 Gbps speeds (Rogers & Bell I think already do) at reasonable prices we'll definitely have to switch, so I'm hoping at that point they have a good modem option (like they did in the past) or at least the Modem component of these CISCO's is decent (but I have my doubts, most average modems can't handle the complexity of P2P traffic - I had one once, would hang all the time, whenever I noticed no internet, I had to power cycle the modem).