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Monday, October 30th, 2023 4:40 AM

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Houston Internet issues

Every time I speak to customer service, they blame my equipment.  Every time I've had to call customer service, it has never been my equipment.  I cringe whenever the first question I get is Agent (10/30/2023, 03:49:41 AM): " may I know what is the age of your modem  "

From this point forward, the customer service rep will not listen to what I am saying and will try to send me a new modem or send out a technician.  This evening while the rep was running through the steps of trying to sell me a modem, I ran trace route.  I informed the rep specifically which one of the servers, "bearcreek.tx.houston.comcast.net", was constantly timing out.  All the rep would do is ask me if I wanted a technician or a new modem. 

This happens every time I talk to customer service.  I'd be happy to post the whole transcript here.  

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2 years ago

C:\Users\chris>tracert www.xfinity.com

Tracing route to e10994.dscx.akamaiedge.net [2600:1404:9c00:29e::2af2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  2601:2c0:8d00:1c70:6ecd:d6ff:fe82:6b4e
  2    18 ms    17 ms    19 ms  2001:558:1008:e::2
  3    17 ms    17 ms    24 ms  po-309-315-rur201.alief.tx.houston.comcast.net [2001:558:2c2:b021::1]
  4    13 ms    12 ms    13 ms  po-200-xar01.alief.tx.houston.comcast.net [2001:558:2c0:220::1]
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6    72 ms    56 ms    57 ms  2001:559:7bd::eaa
  7    24 ms    16 ms    15 ms  g2600-1404-9c00-029e-0000-0000-0000-2af2.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [2600:1404:9c00:29e::2af2]

Trace complete.

The Request timed out here seems to be the problem.

C:\Users\chris>tracert www.xfinity.com

Tracing route to e10994.dscx.akamaiedge.net [2600:1404:9c00:280::2af2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     4 ms     3 ms     2 ms  2601:2c0:8d00:1c70:6ecd:d6ff:fe82:6b4e
  2    26 ms    18 ms    20 ms  2001:558:1008:e::2
  3    13 ms    11 ms    14 ms  po-309-315-rur201.alief.tx.houston.comcast.net [2001:558:2c2:b021::1]
  4    14 ms    13 ms    15 ms  po-200-xar01.alief.tx.houston.comcast.net [2001:558:2c0:220::1]
  5     *        *       15 ms  be-317-arsc1.bearcreek.tx.houston.comcast.net [2001:558:2c0:2465::1]
  6    33 ms    18 ms    12 ms  2001:559:7bd::eaa
  7    25 ms    13 ms    13 ms  g2600-1404-9c00-0280-0000-0000-0000-2af2.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com [2600:1404:9c00:280::2af2]

Trace complete.

sometimes 1 of 3 attempts would get through and I'd get the offending server name.

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Why move this to a private conversation?  I'd prefer to talk about it here in public. 

I had 100 mb speeds last night for the whole evening.  Started checking about 7 PM and my last check was just after midnight.  I have 700mb speeds this morning and nothing changed on my side?  Amazing!  I don't seem to need a technician or a new cable modem.   Why are your customer service reps unable to recognize a problem on your side of the connection?  Why must they always try to blame my equipment?

Retired Employee

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729 Messages

I will need to access your account and will be requesting personal account information. 

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That is amusing considering the nature of this discussion.  You likely want to look at my account and my equipment.  DM has been sent.

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2 years ago

5    *    *    15 ms  be-317-arsc1.bearcreek.tx.houston.comcast.net [2001:558:2c0:2465::1]

The trace continues past the timeout at that hop and reaches the destination (and back) in less than 30 ms, so the timeout is probably not significant. Please see https://www.dslreports.com/faq/14068.

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You are correct that it does continue past it.  It will eventually route around it.  However combined with shockingly decreased network performance it is causing a problem.  Video streaming was constantly buffering, for example.  Packet loss was occurring in the xfinity system and it was impacting network performance.   That much is clear.  The main issue here is that every single time I call customer service they try to blame my equipment or send a technician out to my house.  Neither of these is the correct response.  That is the issue that should be addressed.

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