comcast business service

Thu Feb 20 20:11:08 UTC 2014

If it's one of their new Netgear-branded modems, see if you can get your
tech to dig up an SMC.

We had the same issue.  They swapped out one Netgear modem for another
Netgear and the problem continued. The phone techs couldn't see the problem
and kept blaming our equipment.  They finally sent out one of the 'senior'
engineers I had worked with before on other jobs.  He managed to get a hold
of one of the SMCs from their warehouse.  No more issues.

-A

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:08 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us at gmail.com> wrote:

> A while ago I got Comcast's business service. Semi-idle connections
> are get dropped (I haven't really diagnosed this - I just no that it
> isn't the client or server but some network in between). However the
> second and most obvious issue is that intermittently, the service will
> grind to a halt:
> --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
> 37 packets transmitted, 34 received, 8% packet loss, time 36263ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 398.821/5989.160/14407.055/3808.068 ms, pipe 15
>
> After a modem reboot, it goes normal:
> --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 23.181/23.920/24.298/0.474 ms
>
> This seems to happen about once or twice a day. I can't attribute it
> to any type of traffic or number of connections. All of the rest of
> the network equipment is the same and the behavior persists when a
> computer is plugged directly into the modem. I called Comcast and they
> said they didn't see anything even when I was experiencing ridiculous
> ping times. I tend to think it's an issue with the 'modem' but I'm not
> sure what the issue might be or how to reproduce it when asked to if I
> tell them to look at it.
>
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