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Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 3:39 PM

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Modem loosing sync frequently since upgrades occuring in the area

Have had service for 23yrs and I can seriously count on one hand how many internet outages we've had.  Always reliable and stable however since the recent upgrades in the are over the past month, working from home has been hard.

I have a CM2050V and it just losses sync and needs to be restarted for it to connect again.  Support is not forthcoming to what the issue is as all they say is we see the issue and sending a refresh which restarts the modem again (which I already did).

My setup is as simple as it gets.  Cable into house >2way splitter (Xtreme) >one side to modem>other side to one cable box.  Thats it.  I only used hardwired in the house and only wifi devices are phones but all stops working and modem loses its US and DS signal and they sit blinking until its manually restarted.

I firmly believe that its has to do with these upgrades and downstream equipment.  My levels are always pretty good and just keep getting runaround answers for the past month.  Any of this work always seems to occur late morning when its most critical to have reliability if working remote.

If anyone can give any insight it would be appreciated as the communication for scheduled work, etc is poor and we are left in the dark.  I posted my levels as I know I will be asked.

thanks

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M Status: Good

Downstream Status: Good

    Downstream Power Level: Good

    Downstream SNR Level: Good

Upstream Status: Good

    Upstream Power Level: Good


Current Time: Thu Nov 02 10:27:50 2023

Startup Procedure
Acquire Downstream Channel: 567000000 Hz  Locked
Connectivity State:          OK       Operational
Boot State:                  OK       Operational
Security:                   Enabled   BPI+
IP Provisioning Mode:       Honor MDD   IPv6 only


Downstream Bonded Channels
Channel LockedStatus Modulation ChannelID  Frequency     Power    SNR   Correctables Uncorrectables     
      1     Locked     QAM256     20     567000000 Hz     5.8     42.1     371     1255
      2     Locked     QAM256     13     525000000 Hz     5.5     42.2     468     1645
      3     Locked     QAM256     14     531000000 Hz     5.5     42.2     486     1690
      4     Locked     QAM256     15     537000000 Hz     5.5     42.1     516     1495
      5     Locked     QAM256     16     543000000 Hz     5.4     42     498     1544
      6     Locked     QAM256     17     549000000 Hz     5.4     42     435     1324
      7     Locked     QAM256     18     555000000 Hz     5.4     42     445     1390
      8     Locked     QAM256     19     561000000 Hz     5.6     42     393     1234
      9     Locked     QAM256     21     573000000 Hz     6     42.2     334     1152
     10     Locked     QAM256     22     579000000 Hz     6.1     42.2     350     1093
     11     Locked     QAM256     23     585000000 Hz     6.2     42.2     400     1071
     12     Locked     QAM256     24     591000000 Hz     6.3     42.2     303     995
     13     Locked     QAM256     25     597000000 Hz     6.3     42.2     290     996
     14     Locked     QAM256     26     603000000 Hz     6.3     42.1     281     935
     15     Locked     QAM256     27     609000000 Hz     6.3     42.1     273     961
     16     Locked     QAM256     28     615000000 Hz     6.3     42     238     917
     17     Locked     QAM256     29     621000000 Hz     6.4     42     275     670
     18     Locked     QAM256     30     627000000 Hz     6.3     42     278     758
     19     Locked     QAM256     31     633000000 Hz     6.2     41.9     296     719
     20     Locked     QAM256     32     639000000 Hz     6.3     41.9     249     612
     21     Locked     QAM256     33     645000000 Hz     6.4     41.9     278     642
     22     Locked     QAM256     34     651000000 Hz     6.4     41.8     256     624
     23     Locked     QAM256     35     657000000 Hz     6.3     41.8     187     622
     24     Locked     QAM256     36     663000000 Hz     6.4     41.8     193     524
     25     Locked     QAM256     37     669000000 Hz     6.5     41.8     201     544
     26     Locked     QAM256     38     675000000 Hz     6.6     41.3     243     471
     27     Locked     QAM256     39     681000000 Hz     6.6     41.9     172     518
     28     Locked     QAM256     40     687000000 Hz     6.7     41.9     219     510
     29     Locked     QAM256     41     693000000 Hz     6.7     41.9     205     511
     30     Locked     QAM256     42     699000000 Hz     7     41.9     157     484
     31     Locked     QAM256     43     705000000 Hz     7.1     41.9     188     496
     32     Locked     QAM256     44     711000000 Hz     7.2     42     185     490

Upstream Bonded Channels
Channel   LockedStatus  ChannelType ChannelID   SymbolRate        Frequency       Power     
      1       Locked       ATDMA      1       5120 Ksym/sec       16400000 Hz       44.3 dBmV
      2       Locked       ATDMA      2       5120 Ksym/sec       22800000 Hz       44.8 dBmV
      3       Locked       ATDMA      3       5120 Ksym/sec       29200000 Hz       45.3 dBmV
      4       Locked       ATDMA      4       5120 Ksym/sec       35600000 Hz       45.8 dBmV
      5       Not Locked       Unknown      0       0       0       0.0
      6       Not Locked       Unknown      0       0       0       0.0
      7       Not Locked       Unknown      0       0       0       0.0
      8       Not Locked       Unknown      0       0       0       0.0

Downstream OFDM Channels
Channel   LockedStatus  ProfileID  ChannelID    Frequency       Power       SNR/MER    ActiveSubcarrier    Unerror    Correctable   Uncorrectable
      1     Locked     0 ,1 ,2 ,3     193     957000000 Hz     5.88 dBmV     40.8 dB     148 ~ 3947     57535331     10788876     0
      2     Not Locked     0      0     0 Hz     0 dBmV     0 dB     0 ~ 4095     0     0     0

Upstream OFDMA Channels
Channel   LockedStatus    ProfileID    ChannelID    Frequency       Power
      1     Locked     3 ,4 ,10 ,11 ,12 ,13     41     36200000 Hz     42.8 dBmV
      2     Not Locked     0      0     0 Hz     0 dBmV

Event Log
         Time               Priority     Description
Thu Nov 02 10:26:18 2023     Notice (6)     US profile assignment change. US Chan ID: 41; Previous Profile: 10 13; New Profile: 12 13.;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 10:09:55 2023     Notice (6)     CM-STATUS message sent. Event Type Code: 4; Chan ID: 28 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44; DSID: N/A; MAC Addr: N/A; OFDM/OFDMA Profile ID: N/A.;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 10:09:48 2023     Critical (3)     Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 10:09:48 2023     Warning (5)     MDD message timeout;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 09:26:18 2023     Notice (6)     US profile assignment change. US Chan ID: 41; Previous Profile: 12 13; New Profile: 10 13.;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 09:13:03 2023     Notice (6)     US profile assignment change. US Chan ID: 41; Previous Profile: 10 13; New Profile: 12 13.;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 09:10:28 2023     Notice (6)     CM-STATUS message sent. Event Type Code: 4; Chan ID: 28 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44; DSID: N/A; MAC Addr: N/A; OFDM/OFDMA Profile ID: N/A.;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 09:09:58 2023     Critical (3)     Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 09:09:57 2023     Warning (5)     MDD message timeout;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 08:10:02 2023     Notice (6)     CM-STATUS message sent. Event Type Code: 4; Chan ID: 28 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44; DSID: N/A; MAC Addr: N/A; OFDM/OFDMA Profile ID: N/A.;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 08:09:55 2023     Critical (3)     Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 08:09:55 2023     Warning (5)     MDD message timeout;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 08:01:18 2023     Notice (6)     US profile assignment change. US Chan ID: 41; Previous Profile: 12 13; New Profile: 10 13.;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 07:56:21 2023     Notice (6)     DS profile assignment change. DS Chan ID: 32; Previous Profile: ; New Profile: 1 2 3.;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Nov 02 07:56:15 2023     Notice (6)     TLV-11 - unrecognized OID;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Time Not Established     Notice (6)     Honoring MDD; IP provisioning mode = IPv6
Time Not Established     Critical (3)     SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing;;CM-MAC=[Edited: "Personal Information"];CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
 

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2 years ago

The signal status values at that snapshot in time were OK but the error log entries indicate that something is going on. Perhaps there is noise ingress into the line(s) /  an upstream channel / return path impairment somewhere.


And there are a fair number of uncorrectable bit errors, but that may not be significant depending on the total uptime of the modem since the last reboot.


There are other signal stat values that can't be read by the modem. They are the "Upstream Rx Power" (Upstream Receive Power Level), the "Upstream SNR Ch." (Upstream Signal To Noise Ratio), and the "Upstream ICFR" (In Channel Frequency Response). These are as equally important in diagnosing connectivity issues as are the modem's stats.


I'm going to escalate your issue to the Comcast corporate employees (The Digital Care Team) who are available to these boards. They will be able to poll the CMTS (Cable Modem Termination System) to check for any real-time degradation and / or error reports, see your node / cable plant, and modem health, and see whether or not everything is in the green zone. They can also see a history plot for the modem and those upstream receive signal stats.


You should get a reply here in your topic. Good luck !

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Thank you EG.  Appreciate the fast response

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Quite welcome !

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Hello, @ralfo72. Thank you for reaching out over Xfinity Forums for support, you have contacted the right place for assistance with your connectivity issues. Working from home myself, I completely understand the importance of having your network performing optimally. I appreciate the modem information it is helpful, and would like to investigate this further. 

 

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@XfinityJustinC​ Thank you.....i have sent the inquiry over DM as suggested.

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