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All devices have fluctuating uploads. Are these fluctuations wired, wireless and directly wired to the modem?
Do you have any bandwidth monitoring, parental controls or firewall software on your router?
Have you reset your router to factory default, updated its firmware, inventoried all connected devices?
If your greatest complaint is upload speed and you have a 35 Mbps plan (up), it wouldn't take much to halve the bandwidth if another device is uploading...even with a scant bit of data. All connected devices compete for time and the more the devices, the smaller the slivers of time.
Perhaps you should just eliminate the router...for now...and treat the WAN port on your modem as your only connection until you can get consistent uploads.
In a previous post, you have a coaxial tap on your line. Has any tech mentioned why you need a tap? Have the techs inspected this tap? Is the tap near any electrical lines or amplifiers? Have you tested without the tap?
- DLabit295 years agoContributor
I've tried all this. Fluctuating even straight to modem.
Modem is not defective.
Not using tap anymore
- Bruce5 years agoHonored Contributor III
Just stick with the modem being your only connection until we can find the source of the problem. If you want to game, connect your console to the modem.
I don't believe your modem is defective. Something between your modem and the headend at Cox is defective. I just don't want the router involved until you can consistently fault something.
Who installed the tap? Why'd they install the tap? After you removed the tap, how'd you connect the segments? Your house is a rental, right?
- DLabit295 years agoContributor
- I installed tap in hopes of cleaner signal. But thst was too much signal so I put it back to 3.5/3.5 splitter.
- Gsming straight to modem is still garbage
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