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Unable to activate CAX80 with Xfinity

Paulm54
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Unable to activate CAX80 with Xfinity

Yes, I checked all the connections. I used a brand new RG6 cable. The old modem I pulled was working this morning and now neither will connect which leads me to believe the issue lies on Xfinity's end somewhere. I chatted with support and wasn't able to get anywhere. I scheduled a tech to come out on Monday afternoon to check things out, but support reached out again and insists on trying to handle this over the phone. I'm tired of doing the "check the cables, reboot the modem, try this, etc" dance. I just want it to work.Here are the results of my CAX80's diagnostics. Is there anything here that would make it worth my time to try their phone support again? Otherwise, I'll just deal until the tech can come out on Monday. It's also worth mentioning that Xfinity's activation portal says that it can't connect to my modem after attempting to for 11 minutes.

 

Cable Diagnostic

Status: Bad

Action:
[Internet Access]
Do the following (click the Refresh button after each step):
1) Wait 2 minutes.
2) If you still see this message, unplug the power, wait 10s, and plug the power back in.
3) If after the cable modem initializes you still see this message, contact Netgear support.

Internet Access: Bad
Cable modem is initializing.

Downstream Status: Good

Downstream Power Level: Good

Downstream SNR: Good

Upstream Status: Good

Upstream Power Level: Good


Current time: --- --- -- --:--:-- ----

Startup Procedure
Acquire Downstream Channel: 501 MHz Locked
Connectivity State: In Progress Us Parameters Acquired
Boot State: In Progress Unknown
Security: Disabled Disabled


Downstream Bonded Channels
Channel LockedStatus Modulation ChannelID Frequency Power SNR Correctables Uncorrectables
1 Locked 256 QAM 13 501000000 Hz -7.5 dBmV 42.9 dB 0 0
2 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
3 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
4 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
5 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
6 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
7 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
8 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
9 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
10 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
11 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
12 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
13 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
14 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
15 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
16 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
17 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
18 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
19 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
20 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
21 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
22 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
23 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
24 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
25 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
26 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
27 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
28 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
29 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
30 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
31 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0
32 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 0.0 0 0


Upstream Bonded Channels
Channel LockedStatus ChannelType ChannelID SymbolRate Frequency Power
1 Locked ATDMA 16 5120 Ksym/sec 35600000 Hz 40.3 dBmV
2 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
3 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
4 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
5 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
6 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
7 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0
8 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 0 0.0


Downstream OFDM Channels
Channel LockedStatus ProfileID ChannelID Frequency Power SNR/MER ActiveSubcarrier Unerror Correctable Uncorrectable
1 Not Locked 0 0 0 Hz 0 dBmV 0 dB 0 ~ 4095 0 0 0
2 Not Locked 0 0 0 Hz 0 dBmV 0 dB 0 ~ 4095 0 0 0


Upstream OFDMA Channels
Channel LockedStatus ProfileID ChannelID Frequency Power
1 Not Locked 0 0 0 Hz 0 dBmV
2 Not Locked 0 0 0 Hz 0 dBmV


Event Log
Time Priority Description
Thu Jan 1 00:33:39 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:33:34 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:32:44 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:27:10 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:27:03 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:26:16 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:23:24 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:23:18 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:22:28 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:15:24 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:15:19 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:14:31 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:11:55 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:11:48 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:11:00 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:09:16 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:09:10 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:08:20 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:05:54 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:05:46 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:04:57 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:03:03 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:02:57 1970 Critical SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing;;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:02:55 1970 Warning Lost MDD Timeout;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:02:38 1970 Critical SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing;;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:00:53 1970 Warning Lost MDD Timeout;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:00:46 1970 Critical SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing;;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:06:13 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:06:07 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:05:19 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:03:10 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:02:57 1970 Critical SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing;;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:02:39 1970 Critical SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing;;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:13:50 1970 Critical SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing;;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:13:08 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:13:01 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:12:14 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:09:53 1970 Critical No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:09:46 1970 Critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
Thu Jan 1 00:08:57 1970 Critical Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=MyMAC;CMTS-MAC=00:01:5c:82:c6:49;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;

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FURRYe38
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Re: Unable to activate CAX80 with Xfinity

What Firmware version is currently loaded?

Any Criticals, Errors or Warnings seen in the event logs needs to be reviewed and resolved by the ISP. Indicates a signal issue on the ISP line up to the modem.

Have the ISP check the signal and line quality UP to the modem. Be sure the ISP provisions the modem correctly.
Be sure there are no coax cable line splitters in the between the modem and ISP service box. 
Start with removing any amplifiers, signal attenuators, or splitters from the coax.
From there check the line for kinks, damage, moisture in the line.
Check the connectors for improperly made ends, foil touching the copper coax line, loose connections, bad/old/cheap connectors, or corroded connections. Replace them if you do.
Be sure to power OFF the modem for 1 minute then back ON.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Cable-Modems-Routers/General-info-and-Troubleshooting-for-Cable-Mod...
https://kb.netgear.com/24311/Power-level-guidelines-for-a-NETGEAR-cable-modem-router
https://www.duckware.com/tech/solving-intermittent-cable-modem-issues.html
https://highspeed.tips/docsis-events/

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