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Frequent internet drops for months
Hello,
Last year we moved into our current house and there were never any lines ran for Comcast. We paid Comcast and in May of this year the cables were ran. I purchased my own modem (Nighthawk CM1200) and router (Nighthawk RAX200). Everything was working flawlessly for the first 2 months, no issues whatsoever. Then, we started experiencing intermittent drops in our internet maybe once a day or so. Not enough to make a big deal about. Then a couple weeks later we noticed that it was doing it more frequently. I contacted Xfinity support and the agent told me their were no problems on their end. Thinking it might have been hardware, I swapped my equipment with my old modem/router (Netgear AC1900), and that didn't resolve the issue. I contacted the support again and scheduled for a tech to come out. After he came, he said he couldn't find any problems, so he'd have to put a work order in for a maintenance tech to come out and check the connections at the pole. 3 weeks later and we heard nothing. I contacted customer support again and they said there was no record of a work order put in, but that they'd send another tech out to check it out. the 2nd tech came and said he removed a filter and ran a new ground cable, but wasn't confident that he fixed the issue and told me to schedule another appointment, as they'd have to send a supervisor out in that case. I scheduled the appointment like he said and they were scheduled to come out Sunday (10/16). I also, out of desperation, bought another modem (Nighthawk CM2000) as everyone at Xfinity seemed to believe that the lines coming to the house are fine, so it must have been a hardware issue. Thursday a van pulled in from Xfinity and the gentleman said he was new with that facility and didn't have a route yet so they were just sending him on appointments. He replaced the coax cable coming from the box on the side of my house to my modem. He explained that when the internet was first installed, they reused the coax cable from the box that was originally a cable ran for our old dish network satellite and that that can sometimes cause issues. After he replaced it, it ran the best its been in a while. still not perfect, but better than it had been. Sunday came along and 3 techs came to the house. I'm not sure what they did but after they left, our internet is the worst it's been so far.
I've been looking at the event logs on my modem and see a lot of critical errors. "SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing", "No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out" are the main 2 I see frequently. I don't know how to share the screenshots from that but I can send the frequency info I found. After 4 techs came out and spending hundreds of dollars on new quipment, I dont know where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Startup Procedure
Acquire Downstream Channel: 561000000 Hz Locked
Connectivity State: OK Operational
Boot State: OK Operational
Security: Enabled BPI+
IP Provisioning Mode: Honor MDD IPv6 only
Downstream Bonded Channels
Channel LockedStatus Modulation ChannelID Frequency Power SNR Correctables Uncorrectables
1 Locked QAM256 30 561000000 Hz 4.8 42 3415 3220
2 Locked QAM256 14 471000000 Hz 5 42 6656 6897
3 Locked QAM256 15 477000000 Hz 5 42 5527 8757
4 Locked QAM256 16 483000000 Hz 5.2 42.1 4011 4960
5 Locked QAM256 17 489000000 Hz 5.2 42.2 2823 1847
6 Locked QAM256 18 495000000 Hz 5.1 42.2 3954 4551
7 Locked QAM256 19 501000000 Hz 5 42.2 4153 4966
8 Locked QAM256 20 507000000 Hz 5.1 42.2 3915 4550
9 Locked QAM256 21 513000000 Hz 5 42.2 3864 4925
10 Locked QAM256 22 519000000 Hz 4.9 42.1 3698 4814
11 Locked QAM256 23 525000000 Hz 4.7 42.1 3695 5211
12 Locked QAM256 24 531000000 Hz 4.8 42.1 3949 4805
13 Locked QAM256 26 537000000 Hz 4.7 42.1 3736 5182
14 Locked QAM256 27 543000000 Hz 4.6 42 3990 5210
15 Locked QAM256 28 549000000 Hz 4.6 41.9 3940 4534
16 Locked QAM256 29 555000000 Hz 4.6 42 3902 4973
17 Locked QAM256 31 567000000 Hz 4.8 42 3903 4822
18 Locked QAM256 32 573000000 Hz 4.8 42 3732 4367
19 Locked QAM256 33 579000000 Hz 4.5 41.8 3936 5428
20 Locked QAM256 34 585000000 Hz 4.5 41.8 3879 5152
21 Locked QAM256 35 591000000 Hz 4.1 41.5 4208 4950
22 Locked QAM256 36 597000000 Hz 4.1 41.4 4463 6090
23 Locked QAM256 37 603000000 Hz 3.7 41.3 4488 5465
24 Locked QAM256 38 609000000 Hz 3.6 41.3 4713 5488
25 Locked QAM256 39 615000000 Hz 3.4 41.2 5026 5397
26 Locked QAM256 40 621000000 Hz 3.4 41.2 5117 6419
27 Locked QAM256 41 627000000 Hz 3 41 5621 7283
28 Locked QAM256 42 633000000 Hz 3 41 5301 6064
29 Locked QAM256 43 639000000 Hz 2.8 40.9 5934 6601
30 Locked QAM256 44 645000000 Hz 2.7 40.8 5695 7150
31 Locked QAM256 45 651000000 Hz 2.6 40.7 6205 6574
32 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
Upstream Bonded Channels
Channel LockedStatus ChannelType ChannelID SymbolRate Frequency Power
1 Locked ATDMA 37 5120 Ksym/sec 16400000 Hz 36.0 dBmV
2 Locked ATDMA 38 5120 Ksym/sec 22800000 Hz 36.0 dBmV
3 Locked ATDMA 39 5120 Ksym/sec 29200000 Hz 36.5 dBmV
4 Locked ATDMA 40 5120 Ksym/sec 35600000 Hz 36.8 dBmV
5 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
6 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
7 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
8 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
Downstream OFDM Channels
Channel LockedStatus ProfileID ChannelID Frequency Power SNR/MER ActiveSubcarrier Unerror Correctable Uncorrectable
1 Locked 0 ,1 ,2 ,3 25 672000000 Hz 1.98 dBmV 39.6 dB 1108 ~ 2987 22191960 22162482 11204
2 Not Locked 0 0 0 Hz 0 dBmV 0 dB 0 ~ 4095 0 0 0
Upstream OFDMA Channels
Channel LockedStatus ProfileID ChannelID Frequency Power
1 Not Locked 0 0 0 Hz 0 dBmV
2 Not Locked 0 0 0 Hz 0 dBmV



ColeFlora
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2 Messages
4 years ago
Also to note, According to the most current event log, there were 25 SYNC errors in a half hour period.
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Kaytu
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49 Messages
4 years ago
Not sure if your errors are the same as I had, but I can share what I did to troubleshoot. I was having intermittent drops at random times of the day that would last from a few seconds to a minute. I had Comcast techs over 3-4 times, the case was "escalated", and each time, they would connect to my cable and tell me the signal was fine (the first tech, a contractor, insisted my modem was bad, so I bought a new one- same issues).
I got familiar with logging into the modem to look at the logs and while I'm no expert, anytime I looked, the signals apeared to be fine.
What I finally did was to install a program called "PingInfoView" https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multiple_ping_tool.html and set it up to constantly ping the comcast dns server 75.75.75.75 every 5 seconds. I set it to "chime" with an audible alert anytime the ping failed, and I would immediately log into the modem and find my signals to be poor at that given time. I took a quick screenshot of the signals and logged the times it happened and contacted Comcast again with my results. It turned out, the amplifier on the street was bad and was the cause of the problem that was finally fixed after around 2 months when they replaced it.
Hopefully this helps you (or anyone else) in troubleshooting.
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