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Monday, September 7th, 2020 10:00 PM

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Internet Drops Daily at Same Time

My neighbors and I are having issues with service outages. Doesn't matter if it's a hardwired or wireless connection, the service just drops around 1140am PDT almost every day. No internet service for several minutes to possibly longer. Techs have been out and eventually after three visits replaced cables from house to hub (finally), but the problem persists. I think there are issues with cables downstream from my house that are rippling back to me. Or it could be hardware. I'm using an Arris SB6190 modem. Somebody please help. How do I escalate this to get this resolved. I'm seriously looking into other services after giving my business to Xfinitiy/Comcast for 20+ years. 

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5 years ago

The upstream power is on the high side and it may be intermittently fluctuating even higher to out of spec levels. That can cause random disconnects, spontaneous re-booting of the modem, speed, packet loss, latency problems, and the un-bonding of channels.

In a self troubleshooting effort to try to obtain better connectivity / more wiggle room, check to see if there are there any excess/unneeded coax cable splitters in the line leading to the modem that can be eliminated/re-configured. Any splitters that remain should be high quality and cable rated for 5-1002 MHz, bi-directional, and no gold colored garbage types like GE, RadioShack, RCA, Philips, Leviton, Magnavox, and Rocketfish from big box stores like Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Wal-Mart etc. Splitters should be swapped with known to be good / new ones to test

If there aren't any unneeded splitters that can be eliminated and if your coax wiring setup can't be reconfigured so that there is a single two way splitter connected directly off of the drop from the street/pole with one port feeding the modem and the other port feeding the rest of the house/equipment with additional splits as needed, and you've checked all the wiring and fittings for integrity and tightness and refresh them by taking them apart then check for and clean off any corrosion / oxidation on the center wire and put them back together again, then perhaps it's best to book a tech visit to investigate and correct.

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5 years ago

What do the modem's signal stats look like ? Try getting them here; http://192.168.100.1

Please post the *Downstream Power Level*, the *Upstream Power Level*, and the *SNR* (Signal to Noise Ratio) numbers.


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Ok, thanks for the detailed response. I'm working on troubleshooting today per your instructions.
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