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Sunday, February 2nd, 2025 10:47 PM

Year long issues, need resolution. 200-500ms latency spikes and packet loss

I've been battling issues officially for 1 year and I'm not sure what else I can do. I've had 8 technicians come out recently, 4 of them being level 2 technicians and I'm getting nowhere (One of the technicians didn't know what latency was and only 1 knew very little about downstream channels). I work in IT and from home and have servers for my business that I rely on and I'm drawing the conclusion that I just may need to move to get this resolved (I'm desperate for a resolution).

I have a 2gb/s tier plan (unlimited) that I can't fully utilize because the packet loss is worse under load. I have Qos throttled all the way down to 150mbp/s to my main desktop (Hardwired with a cat8 cable, and yes I've tried different cables and multiple computers). Bufferbloat tests have 100ms+ latency on download but upload is always fine.

I've connected directly to the modem with a public ip and same issues.

I had the xb7 when I started having issues. It was then replaced with the xb8 as a "solution". The issues compounded with the xb8 and it was dropping connections (Downstream channels would drop to 1 locked QAM channel with correctable's in the hundreds of millions)

https://ibb.co/rKzdv5Fn

The xb8 was replaced with another xb8 by a technician with obvious no change. One level 2 technician finally found "something" after I unfortunately had to hard press them into checking more than the standard "Green checkmark means your connection is fine". Their statement to me was that a 3rd party company installs the lines (I'm assuming to the nodes??) and never balanced it then submitted a ticket and left) Note nothing has changed, still having issues.

I added an attenuator since the channels were hot (I couldn't get a technician to install one and he tried telling me the higher the power the better(which was eventually replaced by another technician because my attenuator wasn't "approved" by xfinity))

https://ibb.co/dwy7YJjR

I got very minor improvement after I added one, which was a small victory for me since this had already been going on for about 6 months. Here is the trace route with a minor congruent downstream load:

  2    16 ms    17 ms    19 ms  ---.--.--.--- (redacted public ipv4)
  3     *      216 ms    30 ms  po-309-339-rur301.audubon.nj.panjde.comcast.net [68.86.192.13] 
  4     8 ms     8 ms     7 ms  po-2-rur302.audubon.nj.panjde.comcast.net [68.86.209.234] 
  5    27 ms    30 ms    33 ms  po-300-xar02.audubon.nj.panjde.comcast.net [68.86.152.13] 
  6    26 ms    32 ms    35 ms  be-25-rar01.absecon.nj.panjde.comcast.net [68.85.63.61] 
  7   230 ms    24 ms    23 ms  be-101-ar03.plainfield.nj.panjde.comcast.net [96.108.49.105] 
  8    38 ms    29 ms    29 ms  be-31123-cs02.newark.nj.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.42.37] 
  9    30 ms    35 ms    45 ms  be-1211-cr11.newark.nj.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.35.70] 
 10   249 ms    26 ms    22 ms  be-302-cr12.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.36.150] 
 11    43 ms    48 ms    48 ms  be-1112-cs01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.35.129] 
 12     *      223 ms    17 ms  be-4101-pe01.60hudson.ny.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.41.146] 
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.

I then ditched the xb8 entirely and bought a 2.5gbps modem and made my own x86 based openwrt router since the provided gateway and router has no Qos, SQM or any shaping of some sort. I've also forced SSL on the DNS to avoid dns hijacking and routing to comcast development centers with no improvement. I now have a 10gbps wired connection from my desktop to my router and 2.5gb full duplex to the modem.

Here is the current logs / state of my modems connection (Hitron CODA56)

https://ibb.co/9953QVnS

https://ibb.co/cSRhSzD6

https://ibb.co/N6dv3H1c

You can clearly see the issue with the OFDM downstream channel. Here are the logs:

https://ibb.co/bgpR2wMp

https://ibb.co/hRSYn19b

I've had a level 2 technician come today and 30 seconds into showing him logs and explaining the situation to him they say "I have no idea what you're talking about, I can only change out modems really and what your talking about is done by the boom truck guys. "But I see you have your own modem so there's nothing I can check". He then proceeds to show me some "test" that has some green checkmarks next to it.


I'm desperate to talk to someone that knows absolutely anything about resolving this. I can't keep having technicians come out and not even know what latency is; I gave one technician a complete basic networking lesson because I felt bad. I get charged $100 for this on top of it for the visit. I'm so frustrated, I'm to the point of wanting to move! 

I don't know what else I could physically do on my end, I've tried everything I could think of.


-------------- EDIT / UPDATE -----------------------
2/13/2025
Support told me that there was a ticket for planned maintenance on 2/11/25 and expect my internet to go out. Well my internet never went out according to the logs so I can assume nothing was actually performed.

Here is the current downstream OFDM state:
https://ibb.co/NgFBprHN

OFDM Downstream Overview
Receiver FFT type Subcarr 0 Frequency(Hz) PLC locked NCP locked MDC1 locked PLC power(dBmv) SNR(dB) Octets Correcteds Uncorrectables
0 4K 629600000 YES YES YES 5.699997 32 2300692681 376623494 1801722508
1 4K 803600000 YES YES YES -0.900002 25 4648804260 829014084 3693091386


I am still unable to speak with someone that actually knows anything or seems to care to be honest and personally this has gone too far as it has no? It's been a year! Why is this so difficult to explain? I'm literally showing your level 2 technicians the logs but because green checkmark means good, then have the audacity to charge me $100 for wasting MY time. 

--------- EDIT / UPDATE -----------------
A technician came today 02/14/24 (One was supposed to come yesterday but never called or knocked when they got here and just left, which wasted two hours of my time)

Today's technician was the best so far, which I am grateful for (Managers, please give this man some positive feedback at minimum). He ran a new line from my modem to the junction box outside of my apartment (Which was a nice change as he at least attempted to help me resolve this issue). This did help a little but only because the ofdm downstream channel's power increased. Unfortunately, as a result the entirety of other channels are now running HOT and on the upper end / outside of spec (I don't think I am going to add an attenuator as I do see minor improvement at least, although still unacceptable to say the least) 

Here is the current state:

Downstream Overview
Port ID Frequency (Hz) Modulation Signal strength (dBmV) Signal noise ratio (dB) Octets Correcteds Uncorrectables Channel ID
1 603000000 256QAM 9.600 40.946 43489745 0 0 36
2 501000000 256QAM 10.500 40.946 42556423 0 0 20
3 549000000 256QAM 10.400 40.366 42565551 0 0 28
4 651000000 256QAM 9.900 40.366 42561097 0 0 44
5 459000000 256QAM 10.300 40.946 42597598 0 0 13
6 465000000 256QAM 10.500 40.946 42602257 0 0 14
7 471000000 256QAM 10.400 43.377 42606910 0 0 15
8 477000000 256QAM 10.700 40.946 42611565 0 0 16
9 483000000 256QAM 10.700 40.946 42616229 0 0 17
10 489000000 256QAM 10.700 40.946 42620887 0 0 18
11 495000000 256QAM 10.800 40.946 42625541 0 0 19
12 507000000 256QAM 10.600 40.366 42630197 0 0 21
13 513000000 256QAM 10.600 40.946 42634862 0 0 22
14 519000000 256QAM 10.600 40.946 42639332 0 0 23
15 525000000 256QAM 10.600 40.946 42644216 0 0 24
16 531000000 256QAM 10.400 40.946 42571615 0 0 25
17 537000000 256QAM 10.400 40.946 42648994 0 0 26
18 543000000 256QAM 10.300 40.366 42585470 0 0 27
19 561000000 256QAM 10.500 40.946 42576504 0 0 29
20 567000000 256QAM 10.400 40.366 42653871 0 0 30
21 573000000 256QAM 10.500 40.366 42664925 0 0 31
22 579000000 256QAM 10.700 40.366 42669588 0 0 32
23 585000000 256QAM 10.600 40.946 42674245 0 0 33
24 591000000 256QAM 10.600 40.946 42679239 0 0 34
25 597000000 256QAM 10.400 40.946 42685298 0 0 35
26 609000000 256QAM 9.200 40.366 42689956 0 0 37
27 615000000 256QAM 9.200 40.946 42603529 0 0 38
28 621000000 256QAM 9.700 40.946 42694537 0 0 39
29 627000000 256QAM 9.900 40.946 42699918 0 0 40
30 633000000 256QAM 9.800 40.366 42704578 0 0 41
31 639000000 256QAM 10.000 40.366 42709234 0 0 42
32 645000000 256QAM 9.900 40.946 42600273 0 0 43
Reset FEC Counters
OFDM Downstream Overview
Receiver FFT type Subcarr 0 Frequency(Hz) PLC locked NCP locked MDC1 locked PLC power(dBmv) SNR(dB) Octets Correcteds Uncorrectables
0 4K 629600000 YES YES YES 9.800003 42 10881293 7394341 0
1 4K 803600000 YES YES YES 3.400002 39 22184299 16047192 0
Upstream Overview
Port ID Frequency (Hz) BandWidth (Hz) Modulation Type DOCSIS Mode Signal Strength (dBmV) Channel ID
1 16400000 6400000 64QAM ATDMA 42.021 1
2 35600000 6400000 64QAM ATDMA 43.521 4
3 29200000 6400000 64QAM ATDMA 42.021 3
4 22800000 6400000 64QAM ATDMA 41.771 2
OFDMA Upstream Overview
Channel Index State Subcarr 0 Frequency(Hz) lin Digital Att Digital Att BW (sc's*fft) Report Power Report Power1_6 FFT Size
0 OPERATE 36200000 0.1470 7.0907 44.4000 54.4326 40.0000 4K
1 DISABLED 0 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 2K


The journey to Internet with decent latency and no packet loss continues <-----------------

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How come I see staff commenting on other peoples posts but I can't even get an acknowledgment?

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