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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 10:30 PM

Unstable routing causing open ended response times - previously reported.

I have screenshots, videos, traceroutes.    That should not be necessary.  Check the logs for po-400-xar01.londonderry.nh.boston.comcast.net.  The correct next hop is be-303-arsc1.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net, but the NH node takes over a minute most times to remember this.   When my response time goes open ended to YouTube, I abate my frustration by opening PingPlotter and watching the darned NH node finally discover the Needham node for the hundredth time, and as usual drop packets trying to reach it.   I cannot understand how you folks can tolerate this obvious issue over long periods of time!

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1 month ago

 

user_8xghh2 Thank you so much for reaching out for help with these connection issues. If you are still having these issues and require assistance. If you could send our team a direct message with your full name, the name listed on the account (if different), and the service address associated with your account, I'd be more than happy to look into this for you. To send a Direct Message, please click on the chat icon in the top-right corner of the screen, next to the bell icon, and then type or select "Xfinity Support" to initiate a direct message.

 

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Ahh...   Allow me to share an update!   After 3 hours in a "Direct Message" session with Xfinity support staff I have learned the following.  (1) Direct messaging is used by the support staff to provide an interim solution between email and texting, it slightly slower than texting but perhaps fasster than email.  (2) Xfinity staff may require a minute or two to respond or up to 20 minutes, and no feedback is available through the interface, creating the sensation of endless open-ended waits....  (3) Xfinity staff are the prisoners of adverse factors, which prevent them from exercising any training they may have had, and any common sense - they are process-bound entirely.  (4) The Xfinity staff are constrained by either scripted responses, or perhaps knowledge base, or maybe even an AI to guide them - this replaces their native intelligence.  (5) the Xfinity staff are more familiar with the issues arising from inexperienced civilians operating high tech customer-premise equipment - makes sense to me.  (6) my issue, which is related to router and link behaviors within the Xfinity wide-area-network are relatively unknown to the Xfinity first-line support staff, and their tools. (7) this combination of adverse factors has resulted (after 3 excruciating hours) in an Xfinity tech being scheduled to appear at my house tomorrow, perhaps knowing nothing of the reasons that they've been dispatched, nor any problem history.   If they read the direct message thread, they may realize their time and mine and Xfinity's money are wasted looking for a problem which exists in Londonderry New Hampshire, encountered by their router named "po-400-xar01.londonderry.nh.boston.comcast.net", by checking the my Coax in Magnolia Massachusetts is screwed firmly into the wall.   Stand by for further updates as this farce proceeds...

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110.2K Messages

1 month ago

@user_8xghh2 @XfinityAmandaB 

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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