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ltlepaw
Dec 15, 2015Tutor
C3000 Unsatisfied
I am thouroughly unsatisfied with the Netgear C3000 Cable Modem/router. We purchased this in June and have had problems with it since then. We have been working with Comcast all along to fix the...
ltlepaw
Dec 16, 2015Tutor
Thanks, it's coming in st -53, so I guess that's not bad. So I'm still stuck at why it keeps going slow and/or dropping
TheEther
Dec 16, 2015Guru
Ok, that's not too bad. Do you have any wired devices that you can use to simultaneously test the speed of the Internet access during those times when Wi-Fi speeds are slow? This may help determine if the issue is with Wi-Fi or with the Internet access. As you may or may not know, cable Internet is a medium shared by multiple neighbors. ISPs are notorious for underprovisioning their cable infrastructure to handle the advertised bandwidth provided to subscribers. If too many people are accessing the Internet in your neighborhood, the cable can saturate. I used to have 50 Mbps Xfinity and I would regularly see speeds drop from 50 Mbps to 10 Mbps or worse at night, when everyone was home. It drove me to switch back to DSL and eventually fiber.