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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 4:51 PM

Issues With Connection Drops After Xfinity Maintenance

Hello! I recently received a message about some necessary network maintenance that Xfinity would be doing in my area on Friday 3/28. I was not having any connectivity issues at the time, and my connection was rock solid. The maintenance was completed within a few hours. After that point, I started to experience connection drops several times a day. The drops are enough to cause interruptions with several applications, and appeared to worsen during the evening of Monday 3/31, with two longer connection drops occurring.

I confirmed in my modem UI (Arris S33) that several downstream channels, specifically channels 13 through 31, are showing as Not Locked. There are also several thousand uncorrectable errors on channel 32. The SNR/MER and power on channel 32 and 33 are noticeably worse than that of channels 34-43.

I replaced the splitter and grounding block at the box, as well as the cable modem itself with a new Arris S33, to see if any of those items could be responsible. However, I noticed the same behavior and downstream channel status with the new parts in place as well.

Please let me know what the best course of action is to resolve, or if you need any additional detail from my end.

Thank you!

2 Messages

1 day ago

Hello! I experienced another drop today, this one for few hours. Once the connection came back up, the modem did not seem to have any uncorrectables, but the drops still continued - and the channels that were not locked previously remained not locked.

Here is the current modem status as of this evening. Please let me know the next steps to resolve. Thank you!

Startup Procedure
Procedure Status Comment
Acquire Downstream Channel 621000000 Hz Locked
Connectivity State OK Operational
Boot State OK Operational
Configuration File OK
Security Enabled BPI+
DOCSIS Network Access Enabled Allowed
Downstream Bonded Channels
Channel ID Lock Status Modulation Frequency Power SNR/MER Corrected Uncorrectables
44 Locked QAM256 621000000 Hz 4 dBmV 44 dB 0 0
32 Locked QAM256 549000000 Hz -13 dBmV 30 dB 497 0
33 Locked QAM256 555000000 Hz -4 dBmV 39 dB 0 0
34 Locked QAM256 561000000 Hz 1 dBmV 43 dB 0 0
35 Locked QAM256 567000000 Hz 3 dBmV 44 dB 0 0
36 Locked QAM256 573000000 Hz 3 dBmV 44 dB 0 0
37 Locked QAM256 579000000 Hz 4 dBmV 44 dB 0 0
38 Locked QAM256 585000000 Hz 4 dBmV 44 dB 0 0
39 Locked QAM256 591000000 Hz 4 dBmV 44 dB 0 0
40 Locked QAM256 597000000 Hz 4 dBmV 44 dB 0 0
41 Locked QAM256 603000000 Hz 4 dBmV 45 dB 0 0
42 Locked QAM256 609000000 Hz 4 dBmV 45 dB 0 0
43 Locked QAM256 615000000 Hz 4 dBmV 45 dB 0 0
193 Locked OFDM PLC 690000000 Hz 5 dBmV 45 dB 28741378 0
194 Locked OFDM PLC 957000000 Hz 3 dBmV 44 dB 25256412 0
Upstream Bonded Channels
Channel ID Lock Status US Channel Type Frequency Width Power
1 Locked SC-QAM 16400000 Hz 6400000 40.0 dBmV
2 Locked SC-QAM 22800000 Hz 6400000 40.5 dBmV
3 Locked SC-QAM 29200000 Hz 6400000 40.8 dBmV
4 Locked SC-QAM 35600000 Hz 6400000 41.3 dBmV

Current System Time:Tue Apr 1 20:48:16 2025

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