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Saturday, October 29th, 2022 10:08 PM

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Can't Establish Connection - Motorola MB8611 Modem

Hey All,

Today my modem lost connectivity. 

It powers on and I can connect to it (after factory reset) through admin/password. Hoping the factory reset didn't lose any important settings from Xfinity, though I don't think it should've.

There is a solid green downstream light on (which is what is usually does when first connecting). But the upstream light just keeps blinking at me.

I get a blinking downstream light (green) some of the time as well, assuming that's related to some sort of timeout.


I have a 13 month old Motorola MB8611 modem.

Here's the connection and error log pages from the modem:

I thought it might be a bad cable, and it did seem like one of the coax ends was loose, but I recut it and put a new end on it and I'm still getting the same issue.

I noticed it said Security: Failed BPI+

I'm not familiar with that, with everything else either 'in progress' or 'ok' on the connection page trying to figure out what that means.

Anyone able to help?

Thanks!

Ben C.

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2 years ago

OK, solution required a tech to come out. He checked connectivity and found poor values for down and uplink. After following the cable, it turned out that there was a sharp bend at a connection point. 

Going from 800mb to 1gb had increased the sensitivity of my cable to any disruption, so returning to 800mb had briefly helped me with service, but the real problem was the kink in the cable near the drop.

@XfinityJosephB Yes, I did try other lines in the house without success. I had been concerned some poor cabling by me or a handyman had caused the issue, and while some of those did get replaced, the problem originated outside of my house/equipment.

@jakwagner As mentioned, the outcome for me was a kinked cable near the drop. All the corrected and uncorrected packets that were visible in the modem connection settings were a result of a physical issue that was outside of my house. The drop is actually in my neighbors yard, so the tech had to go over to their house to resolve the issue.

Final resolution will be done when more Xfinity employees come out and actually bury the cable properly. The root cause was an exposed cable that got bent because it was exposed, so until it is buried the problem could reemerge.

Also, there was nothing I could have done as it relates to my house, cabling, equipment, or settings. In my case, this ended up being an external issue. It could have been local if the cable problem had been in my house somewhere, but in my case it was not.

Hope this is helpful to others!

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2 years ago

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Just to make sure of something, and maybe I missed this, are you seeing this in the devices connected to the modem, on wifi, or both? You mentioned that you cut the coax, have you also tried to see if another outlet has the same concerns? 

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2 years ago

@eredwethrin 

The modem has not established block sync with the system. First check 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 to check it.

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2 years ago

Having the same issue, any luck?

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2 years ago

@jakwagner 

Please create a new topic of your own here on this board detailing your issue. Thanks. 


For future reference, it is better to submit your own post as it creates a ticket to get help, and posting on an old thread can delay getting help.

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@EG

I mean, the little badge in your signature literally says, "We ask that you post publicly so people with similar questions may benefit from the conversation." and you're instead directing folks to break up the conversation and obfuscate and duplicate the question.

To be blunt; there's 30 separate threads on this issue over the last month alone, all of which die out without any clear resolution.
Forcing each issue into its own silo, defeats the very point of this being a public forum where users communicate with other users. It also produces more work for XFin staff as there's no clear public facing solutions or troubleshooting that is visible for the customer to attempt before escalating.

Here, from Eredwethrin's reply a moment ago, we have a possible solution; something users can research BEFORE wasting their time and ya'lls time making Yet Another Post.

To the end users, this constant direction to make separate threads comes across as disingenuous and intentionally attempting to hide issues.

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2 years ago

@eredwethrin 

Thank you for circling back here with the solution ! Glad you got it squared away ! Now closing your marked "Solved" topic.

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