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[quote=Anonymous]I've been an Xfinity customer for a couple of decades, my part of my neighborhood is about 30 years old.  I've had problems with wifi since wifi started.  I've had my router positioned in three different places between my main floor and a back bedroom.  At one point until @2010 if my internet went out I could still get it with a cable to the modem.  Since @2012 when I lose wifi it's because the modem is down.  It doesn't often affect my TV watching, but sometimes it does (screen blanks out, pixelation, can't change the channel get error message). i had the same modem since 2010 until 2015.

Other than Comcast swapping out for the same modem I had the small tower until recently, now I have the black box.

During the pandemic working from home I've had Comcast come out 6 times, 6 different guys who do 6 different things.  One suggested I run a new line into my house because maybe my problem is the cables that were run when my house was built.  I really don't want a modem sitting in my formal living room, or to pay for another line and the problem didn't get fixed.  The last tech in December unhooked and reconnected everything including the connections from the home to the one that comes in from the street to my house; checked the tap.

Everything has worked pretty well, with only a few outages until this month.  I'm back to the internet cutting off several times a day for sometimes 15-20 minutes.

Every once in a while if I switch to my work iPhone (verizon), it will drop, then I'll switch to my personal iPhone (AT&T) and it will drop or can't pick up a signal to allow hot spotting.

The crazy thing, and I know there can't be a nexus - is the lawn services and lawn mowers, blowers, trimmers started back up three weeks ago, and they go through November.  I'm sure it a coincidence.

Is anyone else experiencing these kinds of problems? Comcast was supposed to come out today, but they are beyond their window and I'm not sure why they haven't showed up.  I would really love it if they would just send out the guy who came in December.

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