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Sunday, December 26th, 2021 5:51 PM

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Certain websites won't load for months now and cannot get issue resolve. ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

For months we've been having issues with our internet. Really frustrated that we are paying so much for services that doesn't work.  We aren't able to access tons of website on pretty much all our devices. Our ring camera cannot connect, now our Alexa is no longer able to connect to our wifi. We've troubleshooted until it became tiresome, swapped out modems, had techs come out who swapped  the modem again and did some sort of restart/restore that he said would take up to 3 days that would fix the issue. Then we are told that it's all our devices and we should contact the manufacture of each of the devices. This is impossible as if I go over to our neighbor's house who also uses Xfinity we are able to connect and use their wifi with no issues at all. The strange thing is that one day we cannot access let's say www.reddit.com then two days later we are, the same with Gmail, banks, school websites, government websites, etc. While browsing through the forum I've notice others have experienced the same issue and @XfinityJohnN was able to resolve the issue for them. I'm not a technical person but had assistance from my daughter who said the following

"It seems that somehow the router is blocking you from accessing random websites. Having done multiple tracert via cmd prompt it is clear that the issue is not device based but with the network."  I've attached the images that she provided. Please I am asking anyone out there that can get this issue resolved to help me. It's been over 3 months and we are getting frustrated as we cannot use something that we continue to pay for.

 

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Hi, @CRANZ, thank you for taking the time out to share a post here in Xfinity Forums. Firstly, I want to say I'm so very sorry that you've been dealing with the error for several months now. I'm sure that's been frustrating. There are a few different ways we can approach this issue based on the browser being used, or even possibly updating the network adapter driver. I'd like to take a closer look into the tools we have available to assist. 

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@XfinityLayla  thank you, sending a message right now. I'm so confused as to why updating network drivers would be the solution to this issue. Even when we have visitors, they aren't able to use the internet. Every single device we or others own have this issue. My daughter who stays just 10 mins away have Xfinity as well and her devices doesn't work when she comes over. I'm sorry but I simply cannot accept that the issue is with the devices each individuals own. As mentioned, if we go next door to neighbor who also have Xfinity, we are able to use their Wi-Fi with no issues at all. It also doesn't matter which browser we use, the issue still exists. We've tried Edge, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Brave and we continue to have this issue.

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Thank you Carol and nice to meet you. I agree it is unlikely it is device specific. If specific sites are being blocked, that is probably the xFi advance security. From what I'm seeing though that isn't the issue. There is problems with interference in the area and it is causing the modem to timeout when trying to access the internet. That's why it is sporadic when the problems are happening. When did you start noticing it happening? 

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