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Saturday, June 21st, 2025 11:57 AM

Important! Help speaking with live person. Work from home outage

Please help me speak to someone. Work from home- healthcare, need internet. Outage. Please help me speak with live person. monkton, md

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111.2K Messages

2 days ago

First. Check their site here for official info on any possible local outages;


https://www.xfinity.com/support/status 


Use a cell phone internet service, a public WiFi hotspot, or a neighbor's internet if you need to in order to check it.


Or you can use their Xfinity App: https://www.xfinity.com/apps 

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2 days ago

In addition to the response from EG, please be aware that calling the support number during a known outage will serve no purpose.  Tech support, located in India, cannot tell you how long it will be out for, cannot do anything to fix the outage, or anything else.  I believe that if you call from an area with a known outage, the system will automatically block you from speaking to support.  Also know that *ALL* ISPs have outages. If you do work from home, you should have an unlimited data account on a 5G phone to use during outages. You can use the hotspot feature of your phone.  Just be aware of the fine print in your data plan on the phone.  Most ISPs offer unlimited data on cellular, but throttles it after you reach their limit.  If your phone plan does this, once you reach your unthrottled limit, you may not be able to accomplish all you need to do with a throttled connection.  In general, if you use your phone as a backup for your internet, you should get a business plan that does not throttle.  

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2 days ago

 

Important_Handle_563 Thanks for reaching out to us today for help with your service issue. I would be happy to help in any way I can. I see you sent us a direct message as well, and I can continue with you there to get account information. Please be reminded that sending unsolicited Direct Messages to an Official Employee of the Xfinity Community Forum, is a violation of Forum Guidelines. In the future we ask that you please find the most appropriate public board for your question type and post it there. If needed, we may invite you to send us a Direct Message.

 

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