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Sunday, October 13th, 2024 9:16 PM

Your 2 Chat techs deleted my network trying to fix it

I have had my internet dropping for almost 3 years now. I lose all internet on my laptops, tv and computers every 15-30 min for 1-2 minutes. IT is annoying, well my game was dropping connection so much I got some help from them. Turns out 1 of the comcast nodes are losing packets:

20% - 30% packet loss > be-36141-cs04.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net 

I just chatted with 1 of your techs for 30 minutes, after 20 min he told me to wait, I did, then asked him if he was still there 30 min into it.

Then chat tech number 2 took over for some reason, asked me to repeat everyTHING!@!!!!!!

So mad, then he asked for my Mac address on the router and asked if he work on it, I said yes. Now my wifi network is just gone. Seems he deleted it. I rebooted the router, I guess I need to set it up again, using my phone for internet. Your support [Edited: "Language"] by the way. Spent 90 minutes to get everything worse off. Please refund me for the last few months. I am looking for another internet provider now. 

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5 days ago

I had to hard reset the router as tech number 2 [Edited: Language] it up so badly that it only worked if you were hardwired into it. Wifi is back, and I am back at square 1, trying to get my internet from dropping every 15-30 min all day every day for the last 2-3 years. 

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You can see it dropping here:

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|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|           Destination host unreachable. -    1 | 2233 | 2229 |    0 |    2 |  113 |    2 |
|                           10.138.221.66 -    1 | 2221 | 2214 |    5 |   17 |  109 |   23 |
|po-322-327-rur401.tacoma.wa.seattle.comcast.net -    1 | 2222 | 2216 |    5 |   15 |  132 |   14 |
|po-2-rur402.tacoma.wa.seattle.comcast.net -    1 | 2225 | 2220 |    5 |   16 |  117 |   18 |
|po-400-xar02.tacoma.wa.seattle.comcast.net -    1 | 2229 | 2225 |    4 |   16 |  113 |   16 |
|be-303-arsc1.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net -    1 | 2229 | 2225 |    7 |   19 |  181 |   14 |
|be-36141-cs04.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net -   21 | 1234 |  977 |    0 |   16 |   91 |   10 |
|           Destination host unreachable. -    7 | 1824 | 1714 |    7 |   17 |  195 |   16 |
|                          50.242.149.178 -    1 | 2219 | 2212 |    8 |   23 |  162 |   14 |
|              ae1-br02-eqse2.as57976.net -    1 | 2214 | 2206 |   57 |   71 |  184 |   72 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |  453 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|         et-0-0-1-pe01-evch1.as57976.net -    1 | 2218 | 2211 |   57 |   70 |  173 |   65 |
|                           137.221.67.63 -    1 | 2217 | 2210 |   57 |   69 |  184 |   63 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |  453 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |  453 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |  453 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                           66.40.178.247 -    1 | 2217 | 2210 |   57 |   69 |  195 |   72 |
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Thanks for posting on our Community Forums for assistance, user_dzf4s6. I would be upset too if I had a support experience like that. I sincerely apologize. And I would also like an opportunity to help resolve your connectivity concerns. To start, I would like to ask some questions to have a better understanding of what's going on. What troubleshooting steps have you taken so far? Did we reboot the modem manually or through the Xfinity App? Did you check the coaxial connection on both ends (wall plate and modem) to make sure it's tight? When the connection drops, is the modem rebooting? Or is it just the Wi-Fi/Ethernet connectivity that gets lost? Is this affecting all of your devices? 

 

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I powered down the modem several times, checked the physical connections. We actually got a new modem because of this about a year ago with no change, bought it from Xfinity after a tech came out and did something to the wiring. The modem is not rebooting when it drops, wifi still says connected but no internet. It affects tv, computers, laptops. 

I am worried about your tech. He deleted our wifi network working on it. Spent 4 hours today with your techs, well 3 with them and another hour recreating our wifi network. I am concerned he was either malicious, or intentionally did this. WHY would my wifi network be deleted after I he asked for the modem MAC address and asked me to wait while he working on it?

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Also here is a WinMTR (traceroute) for the last 30 or so minutes that shows a comcast node losing 23% of the packets.  I googled it and many others have problems with that same node or whatever it is:

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|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                                10.0.0.1 -    0 | 2531 | 2531 |    1 |    2 |   48 |    5 |
|                           10.138.221.67 -    0 | 2531 | 2531 |    4 |   14 |   94 |   22 |
|po-322-328-rur402.tacoma.wa.seattle.comcast.net -    1 | 2527 | 2526 |    4 |   14 |   52 |   21 |
|po-400-xar02.tacoma.wa.seattle.comcast.net -    0 | 2531 | 2531 |    4 |   15 |   94 |   11 |
|be-303-arsc1.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net -    0 | 2531 | 2531 |    7 |   19 |  161 |   17 |
|be-36111-cs01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net -   23 | 1343 | 1041 |    7 |   16 |   89 |   15 |
|be-2112-pe12.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net -    1 | 2523 | 2521 |    7 |   17 |   93 |   17 |
|                          50.208.235.222 -   35 | 1082 |  714 |    8 |   19 |  105 |   15 |
|                          108.162.243.39 -    0 | 2531 | 2531 |    8 |   21 |   94 |   18 |
|                            104.21.5.136 -    0 | 2531 | 2531 |    7 |   17 |  105 |   15 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
   WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

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@user_dzf4s6
While I cannot speak for the representative, I can tell you that those MTR results are misleading. Those ibone hops do not always respond to ping and traceroute packets as those packets have a really low priority among the incredible amount of data that they manage. All the MTR is telling you is whether that hop responded within a specific timeframe. Since all of your packets made it to the destination, we can conclude that there was no packet loss. 

With all of that being said, you are seeing real issues. Those symptoms are what we would like to focus on. I would like to look at the signals and the network equipment in your area. Please, send a DM to Xfinity Support with your full name and address to get started.

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5 days ago

Concern moved here to the Customer Service help section for greater exposure to Comcast corporate employees (The Digital Care Team) for assistance.

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