Just bought a brand new Netgear N900 router to replace my 4th gen Apple AirPort Extreme. Today January 6th it's raining out with some snowmelt so moisture is possibly an issue. I'm having horrible connectivity with it being sluggish and at some points being unable to connect. I call comcast and the CSR plays the usual blame customer owned equipment game, it's like they have quotas on CSRs denying it's their problem. But they have no problem admitting fault if it's their equipment, they'll just swap it out and the problem returns because it's obviously a cable plant issue.
I think the problem has to lie in the underground plant because the service on our street is overhead the first three houses and then goes underground (mine is on the first ped on the U/G system). I think they reused the underground lines when they rebuilt the plant in 2002 because you can see where the splice is on the pole but all the overhead wires are new (easiest to replace) and I think the underground hard line has reached end of life or has moisture ingress because it seems to be acting up real bad when it rains.
The signals appear to be fine on the modem. A couple of T3 and T4 errors in the modem logs as well.
The issues I'm having is I can access certain websites but not others. I was not able to access the directv website or Verizon Wireless Website but could on my Verizon Wireless router.
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I've experienced ImOn (when they were McLeod USA), Mediacom, Comcast, and Time Warner and I currently have DirecTV. They are much better than broadcast TV.
I have not and will not cut the cord.
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