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Sunday, July 5th, 2020 2:00 PM

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Intermittent Connection Drops

Hello, I've been experiencing intermittent connection drops (for 5 seconds every 10 minutes or so). I have verified that this issue exists BOTH on WiFi and Ethernet, on 4 different computers and devices (i.e. Apple TVs).

 

About two months ago, I was experiencing the same thing and reached out to Comcast.  They said they noticed a problem on the green box outside my home and needed to repair something (didn't specify).  At the same time, they provided me a new Comcast XB7 modem (previously was an XB6).  This seemed to resolve the issue, until about a week and a half ago.  My Setup is the XB7 in Bridge Mode to a UniFi USG.  To try to troubleshoot, I have parallel ping tests.  I have run the pings to these destinations:

  • Google.com - Ping will drop packets when the connection drops
  • Facebook.com - Ping will drop packets when the connection drops
  • 10.0.0.1 (XB7 in Bridge Mode) - No packet losss when the connection drops
  • 10.1.90.1 (USG) - No packet loss when the connection drops

Therefore, I believe it is a problem with the external network on the WAN side.


I tried to call comcast and they said because of COVID they couldn't do anything since the connection isn't completely down / I have some service.  Has anyone experienced this before?  Here are my modem levels:

 

Downstream:

Downstream
Channel Bonding Value
Index
5
2
3
4
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
 
Lock Status
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Frequency
507 MHz
489 MHz
495 MHz
501 MHz
513 MHz
519 MHz
525 MHz
531 MHz
537 MHz
543 MHz
549 MHz
555 MHz
561 MHz
567 MHz
573 MHz
579 MHz
585 MHz
591 MHz
597 MHz
603 MHz
609 MHz
615 MHz
621 MHz
627 MHz
633 MHz
639 MHz
645 MHz
651 MHz
657 MHz
663 MHz
669 MHz
690 MHz
611600000
SNR
41.3 dB
41.4 dB
41.7 dB
41.3 dB
41.1 dB
41.2 dB
41.2 dB
41.3 dB
41.5 dB
41.3 dB
41.0 dB
41.1 dB
40.8 dB
40.8 dB
40.7 dB
40.6 dB
40.6 dB
40.7 dB
40.7 dB
40.6 dB
40.5 dB
40.6 dB
40.7 dB
40.7 dB
40.8 dB
40.9 dB
40.8 dB
40.8 dB
40.8 dB
40.5 dB
40.4 dB
40.3 dB
NA
Power Level
0.3 dBmV
0.0 dBmV
0.1 dBmV
0.2 dBmV
0.6 dBmV
0.6 dBmV
0.4 dBmV
0.5 dBmV
0.7 dBmV
-1.2 dBmV
-1.3 dBmV
-1.3 dBmV
-1.4 dBmV
-1.6 dBmV
-1.6 dBmV
-1.6 dBmV
-1.6 dBmV
-1.5 dBmV
-1.3 dBmV
-1.3 dBmV
-1.4 dBmV
-1.5 dBmV
-1.4 dBmV
-1.3 dBmV
-1.1 dBmV
-1.0 dBmV
-1.1 dBmV
-1.2 dBmV
-1.4 dBmV
-1.6 dBmV
-1.7 dBmV
-1.5 dBmV
NA
Modulation
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
256 QAM
OFDM
OFDM
 

 

Upstream

Upstream
Channel Bonding Value
Index
1
2
3
4
Lock Status
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Frequency
35 MHz
29 MHz
23 MHz
16 MHz
Symbol Rate
5120
5120
5120
5120
Power Level
44.5 dBmV
44.0 dBmV
43.0 dBmV
43.5 dBmV
Modulation
QAM
QAM
QAM
QAM
Channel Type
ATDMA
ATDMA
ATDMA
ATDMA

 

CM Error Codewords:

CM Error Codewords
Index
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
Unerrored Codewords
50638200
1147650327
1147640634
1147662893
1147669209
1147675201
1147678733
1147688562
1147708901
1147717036
1147724979
1147730674
1147736918
1147661879
1147752891
1147759836
1147787971
1147795342
1147801409
1147804775
1147811764
1147822009
1147833119
1147839385
1147841950
1147847525
1147853786
1147857220
1147875354
1147867915
1147871580
50638200
Correctable Codewords
49267833
3
8
9
7
14
12
9
9
14
13
19
31
21
29
27
25
25
30
39
30
26
31
36
39
34
36
31
29
28
21
49267833
Uncorrectable Codewords
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

 

Any assistance / insight would be greatly appreciated!

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