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Thursday, February 26th, 2026 2:31 AM

Packet loss starting at hop 2 through end destination.

I have been experiencing a lot of packet loss starting from hop 2 through the end being google dns 8.8.8.8 or a comcast server that's a few hops further in the chain verifying its something on there network side / local node. 

Using ping plotter to verify, and CMD prompt pings to verify packet losses. Used multiple devices, had modem swapped 3 times. 

Multiple techs have come out and 4 of the 5 found nothing. One found packet loss on his device but nothing further was done. 

Any help or support would be greatly appreciated this happened 7 years ago when we got the place than was fixed, now its returning. 

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Expert

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116.2K Messages

6 hours ago

First. Please post the full output of a trace to google.com. Please use the operating system's trace utility, not PingPlotter

Visitor

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Covered my IP address and first hop. But thats the route its taking to google.com using command prompt tracert. 

Thank you,

Teddy

Expert

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116.2K Messages

4 hours ago

Hmmm. That trace is ok. Please post one to 8.8.8.8. And force the use of IPv4 by using the command tracert -4 8.8.8.8  Copy and paste it. Don't post a screenshot. And there's no need to redact the first two hops. No personally identifiable information is revealed in a forward tracert.

Visitor

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roger, thank you. See below.

C:\Users\matth>tracert -4 8.8.8.8

Tracing route to dns.google [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     *        1 ms     *     10.0.0.1
  2    10 ms    11 ms    11 ms  100.92.143.67
  3    12 ms    11 ms    15 ms  po-306-322-rur202.scotts.ca.sfba.comcast.net [96.216.154.241]
  4    11 ms    18 ms    11 ms  po-2-rur201.scotts.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.86.143.17]
  5    10 ms    18 ms    11 ms  po-200-xar01.scotts.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.85.86.101]
  6     *       12 ms    18 ms  ae-249-rar01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net [96.108.99.153]
  7    35 ms    11 ms     *     be-299-ar01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.86.143.93]
  8    14 ms    14 ms    15 ms  50.145.121.182
  9    15 ms    14 ms    19 ms  142.251.70.43
 10    16 ms    15 ms    19 ms  142.251.224.181
 11    17 ms    15 ms    15 ms  dns.google [8.8.8.8]

Expert

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116.2K Messages

4 hours ago

There's packet loss starting right at your gateway device. Is this with a WiFi connection ? If so, as a test, does a computer / device that is hardwired directly to the router / gateway device with an Ethernet cable have the same problem ?

Visitor

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That is a bit weird, I've done ping test to the modem / router to verify and not getting any loss to the default 10.0.0.1 using CMD prompt.

For reference of devices on network, having outbound issues / tested on.

x3 laptops over wifi, and ethernet

x1 desktop with ethernet and wifi. 

x2 iphones doing ping tests / general crashing and not loading of you tube, and movies.

x2 roku tv's crashing and buffering / not loading content. 

x1 ipad doing ping test. 

Thank you,

Teddy

Visitor

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3 hours ago

Turned off ping plotter, that from googling can make your own router not respond cause of something with how it pings it. Had that running during the trace route.

Tracing route to dns.google [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.1
  2    12 ms    12 ms    13 ms  100.92.143.67
  3    13 ms    12 ms    14 ms  po-306-322-rur202.scotts.ca.sfba.comcast.net [96.216.154.241]
  4    15 ms    13 ms    12 ms  po-2-rur201.scotts.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.86.143.17]
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6    12 ms    13 ms    13 ms  ae-249-rar01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net [96.108.99.153]
  7    16 ms    13 ms    12 ms  be-299-ar01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.86.143.93]
  8    16 ms    17 ms    16 ms  50.145.121.182
  9    19 ms    17 ms    17 ms  142.251.70.43
 10    13 ms    12 ms    12 ms  142.251.224.181
 11    15 ms    17 ms    17 ms  dns.google [8.8.8.8]

Trace complete.

Thank you,

Teddy

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Expert

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116.2K Messages

2 hours ago

That last trace snapshot in time is not revealing any issue. Perhaps something intermittent is going on.

Visitor

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Yes, its intermittent, its a temperature based thing. Starts to be really bad around 1030-1230 is the worse about 60f+. Than remains bad till about 8PM once it gets below 55-60f everyday. 

It'll drop out for a few seconds every minute or few minutes. Once its cold or early morning the issues are pretty much gone or more rare. 

Thanks,

Teddy

Visitor

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7 Messages

2 hours ago

Logged into the modem / router I can see downstream channels but nothing for the upstream.

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