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Friday, January 10th, 2025 4:53 PM

Terrible jitter over the past two weeks

I live in a suburb and in late December there were 2-3 outages that Xfinity sent text alerts to me regarding. Ever since these outages were resolved I've been having terrible jitter with my connection and it only seems to be getting worse (albeit slowly).

My speeds are still great but the quality of my connection has degraded substantially and playing online games is rough. No packet loss according to various speed tests but wild jitter and on a lot of online games, this has made things nearly unplayable.

  • I have an XB7 modem set to bridge mode
  • The modem is connected to my mikrotik router and from there my devices are connected via ethernet (though I only have my PC/console/raspberry pi)
  • I have made 0 changes to my home network since December
  • I have power cycled every device for over 30 seconds
  • I have changed out cables (I only use CAT5e ethernet cables and RG6 coax cables)
  • I have unplugged and re-connected all involved cables, ensuring they are connected fully and securely
  • I have tried taking the router out of the equation by direct connecting my PC to my Xfinity modem

None of the above has solved or alleviated any of my issues.

Also: Unsure if this is somehow related since I have oldschool phone service through xfinity as well. But since all of this started happening, my phone situation has had an issue as well. Modem connects the phone jack to the wall and then I have two phones (in the entire house) connected to their own phone jacks elsewhere.

When a phone is not directly connected to the modem itself (direct connecting from the device -> modem, no wall) my phone will say "handset in use" and give no dial tone, just static. It's been very inconvenient.

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user_rki10 Hello and thank you for reaching out via our Xfinity Community Forums. We understand how frustrating it is to experience ongoing internet connectivity issues, especially when it impacts your gaming experience. We appreciate you taking the time to detail the issue and the troubleshooting steps you've already taken. We're sorry to hear about the recent outages and the subsequent jitter you're experiencing. We'll do our best to investigate and find a resolution for you. To help us further investigate, could you please send us a direct message with your full name and service address? This will allow us to access your account and conduct a more thorough investigation.

 

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@user_rki10 @XfinityChristy 

Please circle back here and post any possible solutions for the issue here in these open public forums so that all readers here may benefit from the exchange / info. This is in keeping with the spirit for which these public help forums were originally intended. Thank you.

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@EG​ I've been testing various IPs of the games I play via tracert and there seems to be some issues. 

Tracing route to 24.105.62.129 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.XXX.XX.XX
  2    11 ms     9 ms    10 ms  10.27.153.18
  3     9 ms     8 ms     7 ms  po-102-rur01.main.in.indiana.comcast.net [96.110.171.169]
  4    10 ms    11 ms     8 ms  po-2-rur02.main.in.indiana.comcast.net [96.108.120.34]
  5    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  be-15-rar01.kokomo.in.indiana.comcast.net [96.108.120.41]
  6    18 ms    18 ms    17 ms  be-5-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [24.153.88.85]
  7     *        *       19 ms  be-32211-cs21.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.40.49]
  8    17 ms    18 ms    17 ms  be-2111-pe11.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.33.194]
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11    20 ms    19 ms    20 ms  et-0-0-1-pe01-evch1.as57976.net [137.221.69.87]
 12    20 ms    19 ms    18 ms  24.105.62.129

Trace complete.

I can play the games mostly fine but there are hiccups in the connection which is doubly bad for PvP games.

This seems to be an issue with various Blizzard Entertainment servers and my location.

24.105.30.129
24.105.62.129

are the only IPs I could find but there might be more

WinMRT yielded similar results:

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |

|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |

|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|

|                            192.XXX.XXX.XXX -    0 | 1742 | 1742 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                            10.27.153.18 -    1 | 1738 | 1737 |    0 |   11 |  375 |   11 |

|po-102-rur01.main.in.indiana.comcast.net -    0 | 1742 | 1742 |    7 |   11 |  384 |    9 |

|  po-2-rur02.main.in.indiana.comcast.net -    0 | 1742 | 1742 |    7 |   11 |  365 |   10 |

|be-15-rar01.kokomo.in.indiana.comcast.net -    0 | 1742 | 1742 |   10 |   14 |  377 |   13 |

|  be-5-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net -    1 | 1738 | 1737 |    0 |   44 |  720 |   19 |

|be-32211-cs21.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net -   80 |  417 |   85 |    0 |   23 |   61 |   41 |

|be-2111-pe11.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net -    1 | 1719 | 1713 |   16 |   19 |  833 |   19 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |  349 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |  349 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|         et-0-0-1-pe01-evch1.as57976.net -    0 | 1742 | 1742 |   17 |   22 |  374 |   18 |

|                           24.105.62.129 -    0 | 1742 | 1742 |   18 |   21 |  324 |   19 |

|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

   WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

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