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snafu_az
New Contributor
4 years ago

SB6183 VPN drops, lots of uncorrectable errors

I have an ARRIS SB6183 modem and I have continued to have issues with my work VPN dropping.  Always at the worst times it seem.  I may have 10-20 reconnects a day.  This is not acceptable when you are working from home.

I have a wired ethernet connection.  I have tried 2 different routers;  One this I notice is that I have a high number of uncorrectable errors on the status page of the modem.

I power cycled my modem 5 days ago.  So the numbers you see here are for 5 days

Channel Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Frequency Power SNR Corrected Uncorrectables
1 Locked QAM256 21 903000000 Hz 1.1 dBmV 43.5 dB 88313 456316
2 Locked QAM256 17 879000000 Hz 0.9 dBmV 42.4 dB 30 0
3 Locked QAM256 18 885000000 Hz 1.6 dBmV 43.1 dB 26 0
4 Locked QAM256 20 897000000 Hz 1.1 dBmV 43.5 dB 41 0
5 Locked QAM256 22 909000000 Hz 0.2 dBmV 43.2 dB 155067 809846
6 Locked QAM256 23 915000000 Hz 1.1 dBmV 43.4 dB 74774 390057
7 Locked QAM256 24 921000000 Hz 0.0 dBmV 42.0 dB 130 254
8 Locked QAM256 25 927000000 Hz 0.5 dBmV 42.6 dB 43 0
9 Locked QAM256 26 933000000 Hz 0.7 dBmV 42.9 dB 84 0
10 Locked QAM256 27 939000000 Hz 0.2 dBmV 42.2 dB 159 7
11 Locked QAM256 28 945000000 Hz 0.8 dBmV 42.8 dB 45 0
12 Locked QAM256 29 951000000 Hz 0.6 dBmV 42.6 dB 43 0
13 Locked QAM256 30 957000000 Hz -0.1 dBmV 42.2 dB 50 0
14 Locked QAM256 31 963000000 Hz 1.1 dBmV 42.8 dB 33 0
15 Locked QAM256 32 969000000 Hz 0.2 dBmV 42.2 dB 34 0
16 Locked QAM256 45 429000000 Hz 1.5 dBmV 40.5 dB 538 28

Cox, please help me resolve this.

thanks,

  • Dave9's avatar
    Dave9
    Contributor III
    4 years ago

    I'm just a customer but this most likely indicates noise ingress from the 900 MHz ISM band since your signal levels and SNRs are great but you have way too many errors in the 900-915 MHz range. If all of your interior cable connections are tight and all accessible cables have been replaced with brand new high quality RG6 cable, then you will need a Cox tech to fix the issue. Hopefully they will respond to you soon.

  • JonathanJ's avatar
    JonathanJ
    Former Moderator
    4 years ago
    @Snafu_az

    I apologize for the frustration you’ve been experiencing with your Cox services and I want to help. If you can email your full name and the street address on your Cox account to cox.help@cox.com, I’ll be happy to investigate.

    Jonathan J
    Cox Moderator