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Low and unreliable speeds at any time of day/night on newly installed Gen5
Starting my own post now after reading for days of others' simlar problems which to date appear mostly unresolved. Gen5 installed Friday March 16, 2018, previously using Gen4 I believe it was, th...
Hi deserthaven,
Thank you for your patience and cooperation. I ran diagnostics on your site and nothing out of the ordinary is showing up. Your download speed right now from your modem to the gateway is 20904.626 kb/sec. How are you finding your internet experience lately? Is there something in particular you're trying to do online that's proving difficult?
Hi deserthaven,
I'm glad you found the community, thank you for posting and providing all this information, it helps. I've run diagnostics on your site and I don't see anything notable that would warrant a site visit. Let me escalate this to our engineers for their assistance. I'll keep you posted with news as I get it. Please also keep from rebooting the modem for at least this week so that I may check your state code history later.
Your cooperation, patience, and understanding are much appreciated.
Lizwrote:Hi deserthaven,
I'm glad you found the community, thank you for posting and providing all this information, it helps. I've run diagnostics on your site and I don't see anything notable that would warrant a site visit. Let me escalate this to our engineers for their assistance. I'll keep you posted with news as I get it. Please also keep from rebooting the modem for at least this week so that I may check your state code history later.
Your cooperation, patience, and understanding are much appreciated.
Liz,
Thank you for checking in so quickly, I appreciate it.
I will keep the modem up and running. I moved it today, twice actually, back to the original room and original cable to see if perhaps the added cable I was using was a problem. It made no difference so I moved it back. It's plugged in to a battery backup and surge protector so even if we have storms it should stay on, unless an outage is a long one. The weather may be an issue throughout tonight and tomorrow as rain is forecast, although prior to this it has been clear or only partly cloudy the entire last week.
If there is a need for any more speed tests at different times of the day please let me know.
Again, thank you for your attention to the matter.
Hi deserthaven,
You're welcome, I appreciate your detailed updates. I just want to check the modem data once enough (hopefully enough) has accumulated. No need for further speed tests for now. Your cooperation, patience, and understanding are much appreciated.
UPDATE:
Liz,
I had called my system installer the morning of the day you replied to my post. They were sending a tech out, at their expense, to double check my system. He left just a bit ago. Installed a new modem as the one I had would not send out a wifi signal for some reason after enabling the signals. He checked the dish and connections, etc. Everything checked out okay other than the modem wifi signal.
Unfortunately, it has had no positive impact on the wired signal speeds, although it is a cloudy/rainy day off and on today. I will check some speeds again as the weather improves just in case things have gotten better for clear days.
So, not rebooting the modem was a wash....sorry. Hopefully from here on out you will still be able to get some stats after several days or beginning of next week, etc. that can help.
Not your department I suppose nor are you authorized to guess at problems, but a thought is that because my recent Gen4 speeds were actually higher often than should've been able to get and the Gen5 much slower than it should be, is it possible that when so many were migrating to the Gen5 from Gen 4 that it opened up the network, less congestion, and therefore faster speeds on the Gen4 but at the same time slowing down the Gen5 beyond expectation? Just a thought.
Thanks again and I will do more tests on this new modem as the weather clears.
