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XFinity internet dropping in the morning
I've had issues off and on for two months with Comcast. I've have all the lines replaced from the road, into the house. Comcast has checked for noise all over my area and said everything is fine. ...
In doing more research, I'm getting discouraged by the support I have been given. If I understand what I'm reading, the Upstream of Docsis 3.1 has 8 channels. The intention is never that all 8 HAVE to be used, but they are available to providers so they can increase the upload capacity. There is nothing saying that they all need to be connected. It's like saying I have 4 roads coming into my city, if 1 is out no one can get in. I understand that you take away 1/4 of the capacity it's slower, but it should not make it stop working all together.
In more reading, Comcast mainly supports 3 & 4 upstream channels. So for netgear support to suggest that anything short of 8 is a problem, that seems very wrong. So I had to call multiple times and have support tell me each time that the only fix is for Comcast to lock 8 channels, this seems like poor tech support training. Unless I'm missing something.
Yes, 1st level support isn't always the greatest.
Yes, normally depending upong the ISP and upload capacity. NOT all upload channels will be used. Example I'm on 50Mbps uload package. Only 4 channesl are used on my CM1200 modem. ALL thats ever been since getting that speed tier. I had 12 and 20Bmps before and only 1 or 2 channels were used for those speeds.
