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Unstable connection on nights that are close to below freezing
My connection since late November on nights when it gets really cold has been unstable with decreased speeds, dropouts, packet loss, bonding channel loss and wild changes in signal levels. This all happens when Temperatures outside reach 36F or lower. Once it warms up by about 9AM everything returns to normal. I've had a tough time getting help with this issue since it's intermittent and when a tech can come out it has warmed up enough where the issue disappears. Also since it happens at night if it is affecting my neighbors they might not notice it since it resolves by morning. I work nights so I might the only one catching this issue.
I've had 3 techs out so far and they have checked the cabling and put new coax connectors on all the cables on the house side. 1 also checked the cable drop coming to the house and everything looked good to him. Since this issue is so intermittent and hard for the techs to diagnose. Can my connection be put on a 24/7 signal log. So the instability can be detected? I'm almost 100% sure the issue is outside of my building wiring.
I have cable modem signal logs that correspond with the dates with near/below freezing temperatures with increasingly unstable signal levels with lower temperatures.
11/20/23 - Starting to get unstable getting packet loss and lots of uncorrectables. Also starting to lose downstream channel bonding. Temperatures that night 38F.
11/24/23 - Noticeable internet instability lots of packet loss wild swing in signal levels on the downstream bonded channels and channel loss. Temperatures that night 32F.
11/27/23 - Internet mostly unusable that night modem constantly rebooting having trouble keeping any channels bonded. Temperatures that night 28F.
12/16/23 Got a new modem so logs look a bit different. Unstable tonight as well. Losing bonding channels, packet loss, high uncorrectables and out of spec signal levels. Temperature outside currently 35F.
Navitron
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1 year ago
For comparison here are the signal levels at 10:30AM When it has warmed up to 42F outside and the connection is back to normal.
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user_a3mjax
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1 year ago
From Chicagoland 👋
This happened to us starting Saturday Night (Jan 13) with the lowest temp being -8° (feels like -°30)
I was told go swap out my modem and I did so this morning. We had a good hour of flawless streaming until the same intermittent connecting / no connection found messages.
I've been on my 5G phone trying to troubleshoot further, we're getting a service call this Wednesday. Nervous that it'll all work when he's around and will continue acting up a night.
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user7279
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1 year ago
Experiencing the same in Logan Square, Chicago. I lose and gain WiFi several times a day with these below 0 temps. Xfinity’s chatbot is virtually useless and just suggests sending technicians which will result in a charge to my account for what I am confident will be a fruitless visit. It would be nice to at least get confirmation that these extreme temperatures affect service.
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user_qgv5lz
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1 year ago
I'm in Oak Lawn Illinois and have been experiencing this pixelation/skipping sound issues for the last couple of days sinc the bitter cold hit. A couple of times I got the "no signal" message on my TV. Tech resent the signal today and said she "cleared out the old signals" and I should be fine now. We'll, several hours later and same problem. Shows up on programs recorded on DVR as well. Definite lag time when using the remote too.
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Navitron
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1 year ago
Hello original poster here for my problem the cold snap for my area is over and I have interesting information. Temperatures dropped to 15 degrees for 3 days straight on the 12-15th of January. The connection was actually pretty stable during the extreme cold. Now it has "warmed" up to 36 F and the instability is back. It seems like just near freezing is the trouble temperatures for the equipment it's effecting. Maybe a frost freeze/unfreeze moisture ingress into the coax cable connection somewhere on the line creating instability?
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user_czoaat
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1 year ago
I’m in the Huntsville. AL area and am experiencing similar issues. Once the temp goes below freezing, we begin experiencing pixilation on random channels. The lower the temp goes, the worse the pixilation. We scheduled a tech to come out, but by the next morning, the temp returned to upper 30’s and the issue resolved itself. By the following night, it returned as the temp decreased to below freezing.
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