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Sunday, February 8th, 2026 8:43 PM

Gateway constantly goes offline - speeds are about 1/3 of plan purchased

Since switching to Xfinity in January, I have been constantly plagued by my gateway going offline ( red light ) and having to cycle the power to get it back on.  Up until this week, it seemed to happen consistently around 130PM EST.  I spoke to a tech for about 45 minutes the other day who said they fixed it.. Now I have made it past the 1:30 pm mark for a few days, but it's showing Red when I wake up every morning and around 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm every night.  I have opened multiple cases, and was able to get through for 3 or 4 chat sessions of the 20-30 I have attempted ( they never put anyone in my queue or tell me they can't find me in Xfinity's system to assist me )  To top it off, when it does work, it is only 1/3 ( 300mbs? ) of the purchased plan speed ( 1GB ), and the signal speed is all over the place, we often have buffering on our streaming services, and devices dropping offline while in use.  I work from home, so I can't have my internet kicking me offline multiple times throughout the day.

I'm getting kind of tired of this - I have the cable pulled to the far end of my house - can I get a tech to come out and install the connection through my exterior wall closer to my main living area?  This will make it easier than climbing up to my ceiling to address the issue every time until they can figure out why my gateway keeps disconnecting - maybe a shorter cable run will improve my speeds as well?  I need some sort of resolution, or I will be leaving for a more stable provider.

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3 months ago

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2 months ago

@user_m311vc @XfinityJon 

Please circle back here and post any possible solutions for the issue here in these open public forums so that all readers here may benefit from the exchange / info. This is in keeping with the spirit for which these public help forums were originally intended. Thank you.

Visitor

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2 months ago

Recieved a new gateway on Saturday later in the day.  Sunday for the couple hours I was home it worked.  Wake up today and the new Gateway is showing red again, and I have to power cycle it.  Could it be an issue with the Coax run?  Is there some kind of stability test or something I can set to run constantly to try and capture whatever packet or event is taking my gateway offline?

Visitor

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Try using Pingplotter's 14 day trial. I've been running it since opening my ticket to track and monitor my connection status and log dropouts that have been happening.

Visitor

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Thank you.  So far we have not had an issue today.  Usually see a 3rd drop out between 730pm and 800pm EST, hopefully no problems,  but I'll give it at least a week before I'll close the case

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Was your issue resolved? I'm having similar problems. It's frustrating. I didn't have this issue when I had the 800mbps plan. I upgrade to 1GB and I've had nothing but issues. Things randomly disconnecting, Internet drops at times and some devices say they're getting like 100mbps over wifi. I get that I won't reach 1GB without using an Ethernet cable, but only getting around 100mbps over wifi seems like a HUGE difference. 

I even moved the XB8 router closer hoping it would resolve and it has not. 

Visitor

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I had them move the gateway.  In the process,  it also turned out the 20+ year old cable run was junk, so they pulled a new run from the pole.  It has been working solid since then, and I only reset it once after a storm when we were getting slow soeeds.

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Good evening @user_mb852a and we're sorry to hear that you’re still experiencing connection issues, even after moving your XB8 gateway closer in an effort to improve performance. We understand how frustrating it can be when you’re not getting your subscribed speeds, and we’re happy to help troubleshoot further.

 

To better understand what’s going on, could you please let us know what troubleshooting steps you’ve already tried? Have you run any diagnostics through the Xfinity app? Additionally, if possible, have you tested your connection using a direct Ethernet connection to see if the speeds improve when hardwired?

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