New Arris S34 Install

Helping a friend who had a lot of issues with an older Motorola modem Docsis 3.0 or older and not so great TP-link router.

Put together an S34 capable of the mid split speeds and Ubiquiti Unifi Express 7 which is ideal for this small 3 room apartment.

Took a while to activate -- could not self activate it didn't like the HFC Mac when entered.  Support chat got it going for us.

It on the 1.2 Gig x 40 Mbps plan and with 6 ghz  wifi on 80 mhz channel my pixel 7 speed tested solid 900+ down x 40+ up.  Really nice actually.

With teleport I can check the UX7 and modem signals remotely anytime which is great.

Only thing I'm seeing that I'm wondering if I should be concerned is only 4 channels have had a bit of correctable / uncorrectables over the course of 36 gigabytes that has gone through the modem the first 24 hours of using the service.  SNR seems a bit low with some a 37.4 but I understand 35 is the minimum.  I'm used to seeing 40's on SNR.  Power levels are all in spec and actually pretty decent being all close to zero.

Any thoughts on channels 39 - 42 ?  The service seems to work really well and I think resolved her problems.  She was having TV (Roku) issues during congested times and wifi phones wanting to switch to rather unusable cellular where they are.  Wifi devices all using 5 ghz on DFS channel 100 to avoid noise 80 mhz width and typical phy rates of up to 480 Mbps to 1.2 Gbps over the air.  Seems to rip!

BTW if you are comfortable with Ubiquiti's ecosystem, the UX7 (Unifi Express 7) is a fantastic small dwelling all-in-one solution where you can remotely help someone w/ hybrid cloud access and seamless teleport VPN to look at the modem remotely etc.  I'm hoping things will finally be good for her daily usage.  Will see how the first week with the new equipment goes!

Procedure	Status	Comment
Acquire Downstream Channel	579000000 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
33	Locked	256QAM	627000000 Hz	1.7 dBmV	37.4 dB	14	0
34	Locked	256QAM	633000000 Hz	1.1 dBmV	38.6 dB	8	0
35	Locked	256QAM	639000000 Hz	1.9 dBmV	39.0 dB	0	0
36	Locked	256QAM	645000000 Hz	0.5 dBmV	37.6 dB	0	0
37	Locked	256QAM	651000000 Hz	2.0 dBmV	38.6 dB	7	0
38	Locked	256QAM	657000000 Hz	-0.2 dBmV	37.6 dB	1	0
39	Locked	256QAM	663000000 Hz	0.9 dBmV	37.6 dB	5796	18776
40	Locked	256QAM	669000000 Hz	-0.2 dBmV	37.6 dB	6653	20424
41	Locked	256QAM	675000000 Hz	0.1 dBmV	37.4 dB	1551	5187
42	Locked	256QAM	681000000 Hz	0.1 dBmV	37.6 dB	533	1094
43	Locked	256QAM	687000000 Hz	-0.8 dBmV	37.6 dB	3	0
44	Locked	256QAM	693000000 Hz	0.7 dBmV	37.6 dB	2	0
13	Locked	256QAM	501000000 Hz	4.2 dBmV	39.0 dB	0	0
14	Locked	256QAM	507000000 Hz	4.3 dBmV	39.0 dB	0	0
15	Locked	256QAM	513000000 Hz	4.1 dBmV	39.0 dB	0	0
16	Locked	256QAM	519000000 Hz	4.0 dBmV	39.0 dB	0	0
17	Locked	256QAM	525000000 Hz	4.0 dBmV	38.6 dB	0	0
18	Locked	256QAM	531000000 Hz	3.7 dBmV	38.6 dB	0	0
19	Locked	256QAM	537000000 Hz	3.6 dBmV	39.0 dB	0	0
20	Locked	256QAM	543000000 Hz	3.8 dBmV	38.6 dB	0	0
21	Locked	256QAM	555000000 Hz	3.7 dBmV	38.6 dB	0	0
22	Locked	256QAM	561000000 Hz	3.0 dBmV	39.0 dB	6	0
23	Locked	256QAM	567000000 Hz	3.4 dBmV	39.0 dB	0	0
24	Locked	256QAM	573000000 Hz	2.8 dBmV	39.0 dB	0	0
25	Locked	256QAM	579000000 Hz	2.8 dBmV	38.6 dB	4	0
26	Locked	256QAM	585000000 Hz	2.8 dBmV	38.6 dB	0	0
27	Locked	256QAM	591000000 Hz	1.8 dBmV	38.6 dB	0	0
28	Locked	256QAM	597000000 Hz	2.9 dBmV	39.0 dB	5	0
29	Locked	256QAM	603000000 Hz	2.1 dBmV	38.6 dB	0	0
30	Locked	256QAM	609000000 Hz	2.8 dBmV	38.6 dB	0	0
31	Locked	256QAM	615000000 Hz	2.0 dBmV	38.6 dB	2	0
32	Locked	256QAM	621000000 Hz	2.1 dBmV	39.0 dB	4	0
159	Locked	OFDM PLC	702000000 Hz	1.1 dBmV	39.0 dB	1461346303	1844

Upstream Bonded Channels
Channel ID	Lock Status	US Channel Type	Frequency	Width	Power
2	Locked	SC-QAM	16400000 Hz	6400000	41.5 dBmV
6	Locked	SC-QAM	40400000 Hz	3200000	41.3 dBmV
5	Locked	SC-QAM	35600000 Hz	6400000	41.8 dBmV
4	Locked	SC-QAM	29200000 Hz	6400000	42.3 dBmV
3	Locked	SC-QAM	22800000 Hz	6400000	41.8 dBmV