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Saturday, June 20th, 2020 7:00 AM

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Upgraded to Gig speed and dropped to 20mbps!

So after years of family complaining about slow internet, i upgraded, or so I thought.

Paid for 1Gigabit ethernet.  Up from 100Mbps.

Old System: Motorola Arris Surfboarrd SB6121.  Speed = 120Mbps.  Cabled.  Not wifi.

Xfinitiy support said I can't get essentially any higher because old modem capped at 180Mbps.  Get new modem.  Agreed.

Got new Netgear c7800.  Literally plug/play connect to Xfinity setup and go.

 

NEW SYSTEM: 40Mbps!!! brand new modem and download speed dropped 3x.  Upload increased 8x.   Spent hour with customer support tieir 0/1.  can't fix.  modem green on their end.  all resets.  server resets on their end.  tried everything - twice!  Nothing changed on my end.  unplugged 5 cable from old modem.  plugged 5 cables into new modem.  Should be getting 1000Mbps.  I get 40....and I"m paying extra for this!!!

 

Tier 2 service was supposed to call.  No call.  16 year customer.... Joy.

 

My guess is next they will tell me I have a bad modem out-of-box.  This happened when I upgraded from 25Mbps to 100 about 6 years ago....2nd modem same results....until Tier 2 said something like they discovered they had to flip a switch on their end....and then poof...everything worked....rather suspicous.......

 

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5 years ago

Try calling 1-800-comcast and ask a rep to completely remove the modem from your account and to "re-provision" it from scratch. Also ask them to confirm that the provisioning and account data in their database is correct and complete and that the correct configuration / bootfile for your subscribed to speed tier is being pushed to the modem.

 

Good luck !

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@16yearcustomer1 wrote:

Thanks. But that was something they already did in Tier -0/1 services.  Sent modem new bootfile twice.

 

 


FWIW, that doesn't necessarily mean that the other related steps that I stated were also performed by that rep. It's very easy for them to just re-push a boot-file.

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5 years ago

I may have had faster internet with Netzero back in the day.....

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Thanks. But that was something they already did in Tier -0/1 services.  Sent modem new bootfile twice.

Service guy showed up today.  Left message that they found a problem outside that they needed to resolve...but the message said we would have essentially zero service for 24-48 hours while they fixed the outside issues....  So I assume that the first thing they do is make sure they can get at least 1Gbps at their drop at the street?

 

They were correct on zero internet service, as I am now at 1.4Mbps after Customer Service left.

 

So let's recap.

Day 1: 120Mbps.  Pay for 1Gbps.  Still only get 120Mbps.

Day 2: Buy new Modem.  

Day 3: Install Modem.  Get 40Gbps.  Call Customer Service.

Day 4: Waiting

Day 5: Service Arrives.  Get 1.4Mbps.

 

I'm sure there is a solid technical answer for all of this.

 

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