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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 3:19 AM

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Intermittent drops while streaming

Hi there, I stream quite a bit and have been experiencing occasional 5-10 minute drop where my upload speed absolutely drops to pretty much zero. There's no real pattern to what's going on outside of the only time I notice happening is when I'm doing my usual Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday stream. I stream at 5250kb/s upload, usually zero problems outside of this.

I pay for gigabit internet which never gives me a problem with my download, just upload, which unfortunately is the main thing I need it for in this case. It's been incredibly frustrating as this essentially equals a part time job.

I've had about 4 techs come out over the span of the past year, none of them were able to resolve the issue, have spoken to customer service about 10 times, sometimes they'll do something on their end to adjust some of the background settings or something like that, things will be ok for a week or so, then back to dropping upload speed again.

error logs bring up the following but not typically during my stream

DHCPv6 - Missing Required Option 82

DHCPv6 - Missing Required Option 24

Firewall log gives me

FW.IPv6 FORWARD drop , 403 Attempts, 2022/10/17 21:03:50 Firewall Blocked
FW.IPv6 INPUT drop , 19787 Attempts, 2022/10/17 21:03:50 Firewall Blocked

here's my xfinity router tables I've seen posted in case that's needed, ANY help would be appreciated.

Downstream
Channel Bonding Value
Index
32
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
0
37
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
Frequency
669000000
507000000
483000000
489000000
495000000
513000000
519000000
525000000
531000000
537000000
543000000
549000000
555000000
561000000
567000000
573000000
579000000
585000000
591000000
597000000
603000000
609000000
615000000
621000000
627000000
633000000
639000000
645000000
651000000
657000000
663000000
724800000
SNR
40.366287
40.946209
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.946209
40.366287
40.946209
40.366287
40.946209
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.366287
40.946209
40.946209
40.366287
40.946209
42.90 dB
Power Level
8.900002
6.599998
6.500000
6.800003
6.699997
6.800003
7.199997
7.099998
7.400002
7.900002
7.699997
8.000000
7.800003
7.900002
8.400002
8.699997
8.400002
8.500000
8.400002
8.400002
8.599998
8.500000
8.400002
8.699997
8.599998
9.000000
8.800003
9.099998
9.000000
9.000000
8.800003
9.199997 dBmV
Modulation
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
QAM256
OFDM

Upstream
Channel Bonding Value
Index
1
2
3
4
5
Lock Status
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Locked
Frequency
35600000
40400000
16400000
22800000
29200000
Symbol Rate
5120 KSym/sec
2560 KSym/sec
5120 KSym/sec
5120 KSym/sec
5120 KSym/sec
Power Level
37.270599
36.510300
36.270599
37.020599
37.520599
Modulation
64QAM
64QAM
64QAM
64QAM
32QAM
Channel Type
US_TYPE_ATDMA
US_TYPE_ATDMA
US_TYPE_ATDMA
US_TYPE_ATDMA
US_TYPE_ATDMA
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
12008
11883
11753
11638
11527
11406
11242
11128
11007
10869
10743
10633
10515
10347
10233
10114
9974
9843
9731
9610
9479
9354
9233
9102
8975
8861
8742
8612
8466
8355
8219
559030611
Correctable 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
3735936685
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
3735936685

ANY help would be greatly appreciated

Official Employee

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3 years ago

Could you please send our team a direct message with your full name and full address? Our team can most definitely take a further look at this issue.

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110.4K Messages

3 years ago

@beefdip @XfinityThomasB 

Please circle back here and post any possible solutions for the issue here in the open 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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6 Messages

3 years ago

After reaching out @Xfinitysupport with their modem update I have seen much better results while streaming. There have been zero dropped frames and the packet loss has been minimal, though still does occur, just on a much shorter and rarer occurrence.

Before the update (the two verticle lines are me disconnecting the router, I just wanted to show that first spike and the red lines after)

and here's about a week after
Just the one spike at about 7:20, might chalk that up to noise as i do live in a condo complex.

The rep I spoke to via DM updated my software profile and after checking the signal said -

"I just finished my check and overall the signal is pretty good. Before the reset and coax check the uncorrectables were spiking at times and there were t3 timeouts. The goal now is to see if they continue to do that and I can monitor for that. The other issue is there looks to be an issue with upstream power in the area, but no official events on it. This means that monitoring for a short time is good to determine the next step. I know Chicago area is getting upgrades and other work which is causing issues."

So for now things look great, I'll be creating a new post if this happen again and I'll be monitoring for a month with PingPlotter as I paid for that to get some hard data.

Contributor

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128 Messages

@beefdip​ I'm also Chicago area. Similar issues with my streaming  since they "enhanced the network". Im glad the upgrade helped you. I wonder how long this upgrade process in Chicago is going to affect people working from home and streaming.

Visitor

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6 Messages

@user_0ef58c made a new post because it's starting up again https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/your-home-network/intermittent-drops-in-upload-picking-back-up-after-xfinity-router-software-profile-update/6361a7a3c4ab3642dbd77c4e bittersweet to hear that it's not just me...but boy I wish they'd figure this out.

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452 Messages

Thank you for taking the time to reach out to our community about this issue that you're having @beefdip. My team and I would like to take a closer look at your network and equipment so that we can help pinpoint what is causing this issue with your connection and turn this around so that you can fully enjoy your services with us. Please send us a Direct Message to get started. 

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Contributor

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128 Messages

@beefdip​ it clearly must have something to do with the work they've been doing in our region to upgrade the network. I wish they'd be forthright about it. This months-long runaround is tiring. 

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