T3 and T4 Timeouts from an ex-field technician
Starting in September of 2013, I noticed my connection becoming intermittent at best. Voice conferencing and gaming would literally go from 23 ms to over 10k ms and then obviously I would disconnect from the server. About a week after this first started happening, it started to randomly disconnect while I was simply browsing the internet. I found the modem was cycling itself. At the time I had an extremely old but trusty Motorola Surfboard SB5100. Despite having this modem throughout the DOCSIS 3.0 updates, and despite it having worked fine through it all hither to the point in time, I figured it may be the modem (after a 12 year run, I wasn't complaining...) I accessed the modem diagnostic page at 192.168.100.1 and saw that in the logs there were massive amounts of T3 timeouts. Being an ex-field technician for Cox, I knew this could have gone one of two ways. It was either the modem or it was something in the node (most likely an amplifier in the trunk line) that was to blame. I called Cox for the heck of it just to see if they could see anything on their end, and as usual, no. Everything on their end was fine, but again, having been a field tech for 5 years, I know that phone based customer service is very limited, they're not at the house, they don't have a meter and they're sure as heck not taking level readings. Ok, fair enough. I purchased a Motorola Surfboard SB6141 to replace the 5100 and finally upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0. I called them, had the modem provisioned, went to the diagnostics page, was "wowed" by 8 downstream and 4 upstream channels, wondering why I had not upgraded the modem sooner, but alas, not 2 hours after provisioning, there was a T3 timeout. Now I know it's not the modem, time to get on the phone and make things happen. I called, they said they would send a tech out. The tech (CONTRACTOR) came out and I explained the whole situation to him. I showed him the modem diagnostics, I explained what I knew about everything, and he agreed with me. He did NOT check levels, he did NOT check the tap at the pole (I have a 340 foot drop from the pole to the house, it's RG-11. A new install was done less than a year ago, including the drop and inside lines, and I told him this, so he probably "assumed" things were good up there...). He scheduled a 5C, which is the "internal" code name for "get a maintenance (plant) technician out to the pole to see what's up". I got a call from my old lead technician about a week later. He told me that the maintenance tech found water in the drop and cut it back to where the "stinger" (copper in the connector) wasn't black from water damage, and that another tech would be out in the next day or two in order to run a new drop. Two days later ANOTHER CONTRACTOR comes to the house to run the new drop. I saw his spool of RG-11 and I knew he didn't have enough left to get from the pole to the house. He removed the drop at the sub pole, and due to not wanting to bother him, I came back inside. 20 minutes later I went back out and he was gone. He never replaced the drop. He probably figured he didn't have enough cable to do it after removing the drop at the sub pole, rehung it, and left. This pissed me off. In the meantime I contacted my old lead and asked him what the deal was, explaining that not only were these T3's still happening, but they were getting worse, and they were leading into T4's. He scheduled for the drop to be re-run AGAIN the next week and made sure it would be an in house guy arriving, NOT a contractor. Sure enough, another lead technician and a field tech came to the house and ran a new drop. They didn't have enough RG-11 so they ran half RG-11, then installed a ground block at the sub pole and ran RG-6 the rest of the way. He said he would be back (this was a month ago and it still hasn't happened) to replace the RG-6 half of the drop with RG-11. He gave me his cell number to contact directly if this kept going on. It kept going on. The T3's were getting worse. I asked him on the phone to set up a 5C, he said he would but this was a week and a half after he replaced the drop and hadn't been out to finish the RG-11, so my faith in relying on him was null. I therefore called customer service. I explained that, despite having JUST bought a new modem, FIOS was a phone call away if this wasn't resolved. Per usual, they went RIGHT back to square one and wanted to send out a tech. I told them to stop reading the script from their screen and focus on their keyboard in order to LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND exactly what I had JUST explained to them. For over a month I was implying that this was a plant issue, no one wanted to listen. The phone techs didn't want to listen, the lead techs did not want to listen, the lead techs kept coming back with 50 other excuses as to what could be causing it. I questioned them as to why they would do this when they knew I used to be a tech and I wasn't an idiot. The final call was made to customer service. Again, they said they had to send a tech out, despite two months of this **, in order to get a 5C scheduled. Ok, last time I am playing this game. The tech came out and I caught him on my way home from work. He was an in house guy and I caught him as he was at the pole taking levels. He told me that every port from the tap was bonkers, he replaced the tap and the levels were STILL bonkers, and that he did not understand how two lead techs and four field techs didn't realize this was a plant issue from day one. I concurred. He took down every piece of information I gave him about the new drop, the new modem, signal levels at the modem, etc, etc, and made a detailed log for the maintenance techs who came out. He also told me that there are only SIX HOUSES ON MY NODE, LITERALLY. This means that the trunk line feeding my house only feeds a total of 6 houses. Do you know how easy that is for plant (maintenance) to troubleshoot? There is one amplifier that is literally humping my tap, if here's an inch of trunk line from the amplifier into the tap then it's a lot. I suspected that amplifier from the get go, but even if it wasn't, there would only be at most ONE MORE amplifier in that node, so yeah, one amp checked out good, guess which one's bad? Real easy stuff here people, real easy. So, the tech scheduled the 5C (the second one that had to happen in this whole fiasco), and the maintenance tech came out. I don't know if it was the same or a different one, but this time around (after TWO MONTHS OF THIS **) the problem was resolved. It has been two weeks and I have not seen a single T3 or T4 in my log. I see where it lost connection due to the maintenance guy doing what he had to do and of course the service gets interrupted during this, but honestly, after the modem cycle, there is not ONE added entry to the log, nothing; whereas every other "visit" would result in a T3 less than 10 minutes later. These T3 (and later T4's due to the issue getting progressively worse) were happening every ten to twenty minutes on some days, other days every hour or so. I use VOIP for telephone. Imagine not having 911 access for the whole day because your ISP can't get it's act together. I held out having FIOS reinstalled (it was installed here when it first came out) because I honestly can't stand those hacks. Having said that, had that last tech not been so thorough, had the second maintenance tech not done his job and resolved the issue, Verizon was seriously the next phone call. I didn't go into a whole lot of detail about levels and diagnostics here because I did enough of that with customer service and all the techs that visited. I wanted to make a point here to Cox. Not all customers are complete idiots. Not all customers have zero clue about how information travels from their house to the MTC. Maybe instead of treating everyone equally as morons, you should start treating them all equally as intelligent folk. Imagine how many folks out there were never field techs, imagine how many would have switched back to Verizon within the first week, let alone sticking it out for two months. I was a field tech, I have working knowledge of the system, I was treated like a complete idiot, how do you think that makes me feel? It actually makes me feel pretty damned good right about now knowing I was right the whole damned time about the issue being a plant related occurrence, but I can tell you right now when these people tell you over the phone and face to face that you're "wrong", and that they need to go through steps that, again as an ex-tech, you KNOW they don't need to go through, all the while the internet that we pay for monthly and (in some cases) our phone service (through another provider in my instance) has fallen to complete useless garbage, labeling it as "infuriating" somehow undermines the true nature of it. I know that not every single problem faced is one of a plant issue, this is obvious. Red flags should be raised, however, after every single other step has been taken and fails, instead of attempting to loop the same damned process all over again; that is simply ridiculous. What is also ridiculous is the fact that contractors are being sent in place of in house technicians and basically this leads to repeat trouble calls. This is something that is completely unacceptable, especially when one has to take time out of their day (or out of work) every time a call has to be rescheduled. I know not every contractor is a bad contractor, but out of the entire bunch, I can name 3 that I would have work at my house, that's about it. To make it relative to the in house technicians, I can list about 20 off the top of my head that I would let work at my house from start to finish with a cable job any day of the year. I hope this type of issue, or at least the steps to the resolution of this type of problem does not happen again. I will definitely be more prone to calling Verizon early on if an issue is not resolved in a suitable amount of time, not TWO MONTHS AFTER.46KViews4likes2Comments
Loss of connectivity, IPv6 only (no IPv4) and DOCSIS T3/T4 errors
Our two Win10 computers go from disconnected, IPv6 access only, IPv4 and IPv6 full access, everything ok and back again. This has been happening for several weeks. I have swapped out cable modem (NETGEAR C6300BD), NIC cards and switch in the house without impact. The ethernet interface often says: IPv4 Connectivity: No network access IPv6 Connectivity: Internet You can also see this in online forums as "only google works" as all IPv6 sites work - but there aren't many. When running diagnostics the error is "Ethernet" does not have a valid IP configuration" Not fixed. Also noticed teredo tunneling was being used to do IPv6 over IPv4 and that this is one of the least prefered methods. After reviewing cable modem event logs there are several T4 errors and some T3 errors. Therefore I believe this problem is between cable modem and Cox. NETGEAR C6300BD Event Log T4 Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=10:da:43:28:33:90;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:05:c1:b1;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;11KViews0likes21Comments
STILL HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY INTERNET AFTER 6 MONTHS OF NO ONE REALLY FIXING IT!!! HELP???
THESE ARE MY LEVELS.....THEY GIVE ME FLUCTUATING UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD SPEEDS. I HAVE THE ULTIMATE PACKAGE, AND YET HAVE FAILED TO SEE THE ULTIMATE SPEEDS!..... BELOW IS THE LEVELS AND MY EVENT LOG! Procedure Status Comment Acquire Downstream Channel 939000000 Hz Locked Connectivity State OK Operational Boot State OK Operational Configuration File OK ^1/5D1F5F68/132003 Security Enable BPI+ Downstream Bonded Channels Channel Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Frequency Power SNR 1 Locked QAM256 94 939000000 Hz 10.1 dBmV 38.3 dB 2 Locked QAM256 93 933000000 Hz 9.7 dBmV 38.6 dB 3 Locked QAM256 95 945000000 Hz 10.3 dBmV 38.2 dB 4 Locked QAM256 96 951000000 Hz 10.4 dBmV 38.6 dB 5 Locked QAM256 89 909000000 Hz 9.1 dBmV 37.9 dB 6 Locked QAM256 90 915000000 Hz 9.1 dBmV 38.2 dB 7 Locked QAM256 91 921000000 Hz 9.3 dBmV 38.1 dB 8 Locked QAM256 92 927000000 Hz 9.0 dBmV 37.5 dB Upstream Bonded Channels Channel Lock Status US Channel Type Channel ID Symbol Rate Frequency Power 1 Locked ATDMA 4 5120 Ksym/sec 35102000 Hz 41.5 dBmV 2 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 1 2560 Ksym/sec 20202000 Hz 41.8 dBmV 3 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 2 2560 Ksym/sec 23402000 Hz 41.8 dBmV 4 Locked ATDMA 3 5120 Ksym/sec 28202000 Hz 41.8 dBmV AND HERE IS MY EVENT LOG Time Priority Description 2015-12-16, 02:35:00.0 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 02:34:18.0 Notice (6) TLV-11 - unrecognized OID;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 02:34:18.0 Critical (3) TLV-11 - Illegal Set operation failed;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 02:21:18.0 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 02:20:36.0 Critical (3) TLV-11 - Illegal Set operation failed;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 02:19:26.0 Critical (3) Resetting the cable modem due to docsDevResetNow 2015-12-16, 02:19:17.0 Critical (3) TLV-11 - Illegal Set operation failed;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 02:19:00.0 Critical (3) Unicast Ranging Received Abort Response - Re-initializing MAC;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 01:29:20.0 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 01:28:38.0 Critical (3) TLV-11 - Illegal Set operation failed;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-16, 01:16:24.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-15, 17:28:11.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-15, 03:44:10.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-14, 13:46:42.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-13, 17:35:00.0 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-13, 17:34:17.0 Critical (3) TLV-11 - Illegal Set operation failed;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-13, 16:48:05.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-13, 14:37:02.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-12, 22:43:11.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-12, 12:51:40.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-12, 08:10:20.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-12, 08:10:20.0 Critical (3) Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-12, 08:10:20.0 Critical (3) 16 consecutive T3 timeouts while trying to range on upstream channel 2;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-12, 02:07:32.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-11, 09:20:53.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-10, 17:28:06.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-10, 13:15:53.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2015-12-09, 23:43:36.0 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Time Not Established Warning (5) DHCP WARNING - Non-critical field invalid in response ;CM-MAC=dc:ef:09:1c:6d:98;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.0;CM-VER=3.0; Time Not Established Notice (6) Honoring MDD; IP provisioning mode = IPv4 Time Not Established Notice (6) WiFi Interface [wl0] set to Channel 4 (Side-Band Channel:N/A) - Reason:INIT Time Not Established Notice (6) WiFi Interface [wl1] set to Channel 48 (Side-Band Channel:N/A) - Reason:INIT3.8KViews0likes2CommentsWhat else could it be? Connectivity Dropouts
So I've been having problems with intermittent internet for some time now. The modem seems to take a hit a few times a day and I get one of a variety of errors. I had a technician come out and evaluate the system, and all seemed fine so he concluded that the modem must be bad. I have purchased a new modem and still get dropouts. I'm trying to come up with answer for what could be driving this.... Here are a sampling of errors on my Netgear CM600 2018-06-09, 02:23:17 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=b0:39:56:00:ce:90;CMTS-MAC=00:c1:b1:61:3d:cf;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2018-06-09, 02:22:45 Critical (3) Unicast Ranging Received Abort Response - Re-initializing MAC;CM-MAC=b0:39:56:00:ce:90;CMTS-MAC=00:c1:b1:61:3d:cf;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2018-06-09, 01:23:27 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=b0:39:56:00:ce:90;CMTS-MAC=00:c1:b1:61:3d:cf;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2018-06-09, 01:23:15 Warning (5) Unicast DSID PSN startup error Here is my signal outlook at this moment Procedure Status Comment Acquire Downstream Channel 795000000 Hz Locked Connectivity State OK Operational Boot State OK Operational Security Enable BPI+ IP Provisioning Mode Honor MDD IPv4 only <tabindex=-1>Downstream Bonded Channels Channel Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Frequency Power SNR Correctables Uncorrectables 1 Locked QAM256 3 795000000 Hz 6.4 dBmV 40.3 dB 2 0 2 Locked QAM256 1 783000000 Hz 6.6 dBmV 40.3 dB 0 0 3 Locked QAM256 2 789000000 Hz 6.5 dBmV 40.3 dB 0 0 4 Locked QAM256 33 357000000 Hz 1.9 dBmV 39.5 dB 32 1 5 Locked QAM256 4 801000000 Hz 6.3 dBmV 40.1 dB 0 0 6 Locked QAM256 5 807000000 Hz 6.2 dBmV 40.1 dB 1 0 7 Locked QAM256 6 813000000 Hz 6.2 dBmV 40.0 dB 0 0 8 Locked QAM256 7 819000000 Hz 6.1 dBmV 40.1 dB 1 0 9 Locked QAM256 8 825000000 Hz 6.0 dBmV 40.2 dB 1 0 10 Locked QAM256 17 879000000 Hz 5.3 dBmV 40.2 dB 1 0 11 Locked QAM256 18 885000000 Hz 5.0 dBmV 40.1 dB 0 0 12 Locked QAM256 19 891000000 Hz 4.8 dBmV 40.0 dB 0 0 13 Locked QAM256 20 897000000 Hz 4.7 dBmV 40.0 dB 2 0 14 Locked QAM256 21 903000000 Hz 4.7 dBmV 40.0 dB 0 0 15 Locked QAM256 22 909000000 Hz 4.7 dBmV 39.9 dB 0 0 16 Locked QAM256 23 915000000 Hz 4.7 dBmV 39.9 dB 0 0 17 Locked QAM256 24 921000000 Hz 3.8 dBmV 40.3 dB 0 0 18 Locked QAM256 34 363000000 Hz 1.5 dBmV 39.4 dB 0 0 19 Locked QAM256 35 369000000 Hz 1.4 dBmV 39.5 dB 0 0 20 Locked QAM256 36 375000000 Hz 1.6 dBmV 39.6 dB 0 0 21 Locked QAM256 37 381000000 Hz 1.4 dBmV 39.4 dB 0 0 22 Locked QAM256 38 387000000 Hz 1.3 dBmV 39.5 dB 0 0 23 Locked QAM256 39 393000000 Hz 1.1 dBmV 39.3 dB 0 0 24 Locked QAM256 40 399000000 Hz 0.4 dBmV 38.6 dB 0 0 <tabindex=-1>Upstream Bonded Channels Channel Lock Status US Channel Type Channel ID Symbol Rate Frequency Power 1 Locked ATDMA 1 2560 Ksym/sec 17600000 Hz 45.3 dBmV 2 Locked ATDMA 2 5120 Ksym/sec 25800000 Hz 46.3 dBmV 3 Locked ATDMA 3 5120 Ksym/sec 32200000 Hz 45.5 dBmV 4 Locked ATDMA 4 5120 Ksym/sec 38600000 Hz 46.3 dBmV 5 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 6 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 7 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 8 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV I've gotten to the point where I am just randomly replacing cables... i'm not sure where i'll end up but in any case I work from home so this puts a real hamper on my day. Thanks all.3.5KViews0likes0Comments
Motorola Surfboard SB6121 keeps resetting due to t3/t4 errors
As my subject says, I keep having my modem reset after maybe two to three hours. I check the modem logs and it tells me it is due to a t3 or t4 error. I have called tech support and they don't know and can't give me any form of solid answer. I have been bumped to tier 2 service and they just refresh the signal. I have a tech coming tomorrow, but I was hoping to get a handle on the issue, prior. Here are a few screens from my modem's logs and signal. any help would be awesome, thanks!3KViews0likes3CommentsExtremely Slow Upload Speeds!!! Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received
I have been a customer for a year now, and for four months out of the year i have been having intermittent problems. The thing is i work online and pay for the fastest internet speed that they have. My bill alone for internet is $90. I have been getting T3 and T4 timeouts constantly. They sent every level of tech out to my home, and still no fix!...... The last tech who was a supervisor said that the problem was a "plant issue". That was 2 months ago, now im still getting upload speeds @ 1.35mbps ......I hold meetings and conferences online streaming and because of this issue i have been messing up with work. Please!!!!! I need help!!! I have viewed this forum and other forums involving this problem and did the proper research, but no one will speak on this problem and there have been no resolution concerning these timeouts! HERE IS A RUNDOWN OF MY EVEN LOG! Mon Aug 24 06:46:07 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Mon Aug 24 06:03:37 2015 Notice (6) TLV-11 - unrecognized OID;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Mon Aug 24 06:02:31 2015 Critical (3) Resetting the cable modem due to docsDevResetNow Mon Aug 24 05:46:37 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Mon Aug 24 05:46:30 2015 Critical (3) REG RSP not received;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Mon Aug 24 05:20:18 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sun Aug 23 13:43:54 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sun Aug 23 05:34:34 2015 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sun Aug 23 03:00:25 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sat Aug 22 23:48:54 2015 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sat Aug 22 23:48:50 2015 Critical (3) REG RSP not received;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sat Aug 22 23:47:39 2015 Critical (3) Resetting the cable modem due to docsDevResetNow Sat Aug 22 23:13:48 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sat Aug 22 12:34:55 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sat Aug 22 02:41:10 2015 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sat Aug 22 02:13:34 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Fri Aug 21 13:58:15 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Thu Aug 20 06:16:20 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Thu Aug 20 03:44:51 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Wed Aug 19 12:17:40 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Wed Aug 19 05:18:34 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Tue Aug 18 18:07:48 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Mon Aug 17 07:41:24 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Mon Aug 17 02:37:55 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sun Aug 16 01:45:48 2015 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Sat Aug 15 18:09:15 2015 Critical (3) SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/QPSK symbol timing;;CM-MAC=6c:b0:ce:65:db:58;CMTS-MAC=00:13:5f:00:d7:ac;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; Startup Procedure Procedure Status Comment Acquire Downstream Channel 813000000 Hz Locked Connectivity State OK Operational Boot State OK Operational Configuration File OK ^1/675721E6/132003 Security Enabled BPI+ Downstream Bonded Channels Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Symbol rate Frequency Power SNR DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS locked Locked QAM256 73 5360 Ksym/sec 813000000 Hz 8.7 dBmV 39.4 dB DOCSIS Locked QAM256 74 5360 Ksym/sec 819000000 Hz 8.0 dBmV 39.3 dB DOCSIS Locked QAM256 75 5360 Ksym/sec 825000000 Hz 7.3 dBmV 39.0 dB DOCSIS Locked QAM256 76 5360 Ksym/sec 831000000 Hz 6.7 dBmV 39.1 dB DOCSIS Locked QAM256 81 5360 Ksym/sec 861000000 Hz 7.0 dBmV 39.1 dB DOCSIS Locked QAM256 82 5360 Ksym/sec 867000000 Hz 7.0 dBmV 39.0 dB DOCSIS Locked QAM256 83 5360 Ksym/sec 873000000 Hz 7.3 dBmV 39.0 dB DOCSIS Locked QAM256 84 5360 Ksym/sec 879000000 Hz 7.1 dBmV 38.9 dB DOCSIS Upstream Bonded Channels Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Symbol rate Frequency Power Locked ATDMA 3 5120 Ksym/sec 28202000 Hz 43.0 dBmV Locked TDMA and ATDMA 1 2560 Ksym/sec 20202000 Hz 42.5 dBmV Locked TDMA and ATDMA 2 2560 Ksym/sec 23402000 Hz 44.5 dBmV Locked ATDMA 4 5120 Ksym/sec 35102000 Hz 44.5 dBmV 8/24/2015 6:37 AM EDT 68.13.216.18572.31 Mb/s 0.64 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:29 AM EDT 68.13.216.18551.47 Mb/s 4.25 Mb/s 35 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:28 AM EDT 68.13.216.18547.72 Mb/s 1.17 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:25 AM EDT 68.13.216.18566.64 Mb/s 0.70 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:20 AM EDT 68.13.216.185167.37 Mb/s 13.69 Mb/s 29 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:17 AM EDT 68.13.216.18581.83 Mb/s 13.42 Mb/s 30 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:15 AM EDT 68.13.216.18545.23 Mb/s 1.62 Mb/s 31 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:14 AM EDT 68.13.216.18598.19 Mb/s 2.25 Mb/s 29 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:13 AM EDT 68.13.216.18554.85 Mb/s 4.09 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:11 AM EDT 68.13.216.18568.22 Mb/s 17.93 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:10 AM EDT 68.13.216.18591.54 Mb/s 3.17 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:10 AM EDT 68.13.216.185142.18 Mb/s 18.49 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:09 AM EDT 68.13.216.18575.50 Mb/s 5.51 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:07 AM EDT 68.13.216.18560.31 Mb/s 21.70 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:06 AM EDT 68.13.216.185150.58 Mb/s 21.98 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 6:05 AM EDT 68.13.216.18593.70 Mb/s 22.26 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 5:51 AM EDT 68.98.247.19962.60 Mb/s 1.74 Mb/s 33 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 5:41 AM EDT 68.98.247.19969.84 Mb/s 3.49 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 5:30 AM EDT 68.98.247.19973.57 Mb/s 5.13 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 5:29 AM EDT 68.98.247.199108.80 Mb/s 3.37 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 5:28 AM EDT 68.98.247.199174.02 Mb/s 10.00 Mb/s 30 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/24/2015 5:27 AM EDT 68.98.247.199149.44 Mb/s 17.56 Mb/s 29 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 2:15 PM EDT 68.98.247.19989.39 Mb/s 22.17 Mb/s 30 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 11:14 AM EDT 68.98.247.19993.95 Mb/s 22.35 Mb/s 30 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 11:04 AM EDT 68.98.247.19985.74 Mb/s 22.57 Mb/s 30 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 10:12 AM EDT 68.98.247.199142.90 Mb/s 22.35 Mb/s 33 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 10:11 AM EDT 68.98.247.199137.29 Mb/s 22.57 Mb/s 31 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 12:59 AM EDT 68.98.247.19962.82 Mb/s 1.15 Mb/s 30 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 12:58 AM EDT 68.98.247.19954.27 Mb/s 6.10 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 12:55 AM EDT 68.98.247.19952.43 Mb/s 1.42 Mb/s 30 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/23/2015 12:38 AM EDT 68.98.247.19980.54 Mb/s 5.11 Mb/s 23 ms Rocky Mount, NC~100miShare8/23/2015 12:36 AM EDT 68.98.247.199109.39 Mb/s 22.28 Mb/s 21 ms Rocky Mount, NC~100miShare8/23/2015 12:35 AM EDT 68.98.247.19994.18 Mb/s 8.01 Mb/s 21 ms Rocky Mount, NC~100miShare8/23/2015 12:30 AM EDT 68.98.247.19988.04 Mb/s 0.61 Mb/s 22 ms Rocky Mount, NC~100miShare8/23/2015 12:29 AM EDT 68.98.247.19992.63 Mb/s 2.72 Mb/s 23 ms Rocky Mount, NC~100miShare8/23/2015 12:28 AM EDT 68.98.247.19979.95 Mb/s 8.43 Mb/s 22 ms Rocky Mount, NC~100miShare8/23/2015 12:26 AM EDT 68.98.247.19975.52 Mb/s 1.50 Mb/s 24 ms Rocky Mount, NC~100miShare8/22/2015 11:56 PM EDT 68.98.247.19948.79 Mb/s 1.37 Mb/s 23 ms Rocky Mount, NC~100miShare8/22/2015 11:39 PM EDT 68.98.247.19916.60 Mb/s 6.31 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/22/2015 11:10 PM EDT 68.98.247.19936.31 Mb/s 0.63 Mb/s 36 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/22/2015 11:03 PM EDT 68.98.247.19924.71 Mb/s 1.26 Mb/s 30 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/22/2015 11:02 PM EDT 68.98.247.19930.49 Mb/s 1.03 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/22/2015 11:01 PM EDT 68.98.247.19916.06 Mb/s 0.14 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/22/2015 10:59 PM EDT 68.98.247.19947.25 Mb/s 0.65 Mb/s 34 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/22/2015 10:50 PM EDT 68.98.247.19917.18 Mb/s 10.56 Mb/s 27 ms Richmond, VA~100miShare8/22/2015 9:01 PM EDT 68.98.247.19921.48 Mb/s 2.91 Mb/s 32 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/22/2015 8:41 PM EDT 68.98.247.19958.12 Mb/s 22.61 Mb/s 37 ms Chesapeake, VA<50miShare8/22/2015 8:39 PM EDT 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What else could it be? Connectivity Dropouts
So I've been having problems with intermittent internet for some time now. The modem seems to take a hit a few times a day and I get one of a variety of errors. I had a technician come out and evaluate the system, and all seemed fine so he concluded that the modem must be bad. I have purchased a new modem and still get dropouts. I'm trying to come up with answer for what could be driving this.... Here are a sampling of errors on my Netgear CM600 2018-06-09, 02:23:17 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=b0:39:56:00:ce:90;CMTS-MAC=00:c1:b1:61:3d:cf;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2018-06-09, 02:22:45 Critical (3) Unicast Ranging Received Abort Response - Re-initializing MAC;CM-MAC=b0:39:56:00:ce:90;CMTS-MAC=00:c1:b1:61:3d:cf;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2018-06-09, 01:23:27 Critical (3) Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 time out;CM-MAC=b0:39:56:00:ce:90;CMTS-MAC=00:c1:b1:61:3d:cf;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0; 2018-06-09, 01:23:15 Warning (5) Unicast DSID PSN startup error Here is my signal outlook at this moment Procedure Status Comment Acquire Downstream Channel 795000000 Hz Locked Connectivity State OK Operational Boot State OK Operational Security Enable BPI+ IP Provisioning Mode Honor MDD IPv4 only <tabindex=-1>Downstream Bonded Channels Channel Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Frequency Power SNR Correctables Uncorrectables 1 Locked QAM256 3 795000000 Hz 6.4 dBmV 40.3 dB 2 0 2 Locked QAM256 1 783000000 Hz 6.6 dBmV 40.3 dB 0 0 3 Locked QAM256 2 789000000 Hz 6.5 dBmV 40.3 dB 0 0 4 Locked QAM256 33 357000000 Hz 1.9 dBmV 39.5 dB 32 1 5 Locked QAM256 4 801000000 Hz 6.3 dBmV 40.1 dB 0 0 6 Locked QAM256 5 807000000 Hz 6.2 dBmV 40.1 dB 1 0 7 Locked QAM256 6 813000000 Hz 6.2 dBmV 40.0 dB 0 0 8 Locked QAM256 7 819000000 Hz 6.1 dBmV 40.1 dB 1 0 9 Locked QAM256 8 825000000 Hz 6.0 dBmV 40.2 dB 1 0 10 Locked QAM256 17 879000000 Hz 5.3 dBmV 40.2 dB 1 0 11 Locked QAM256 18 885000000 Hz 5.0 dBmV 40.1 dB 0 0 12 Locked QAM256 19 891000000 Hz 4.8 dBmV 40.0 dB 0 0 13 Locked QAM256 20 897000000 Hz 4.7 dBmV 40.0 dB 2 0 14 Locked QAM256 21 903000000 Hz 4.7 dBmV 40.0 dB 0 0 15 Locked QAM256 22 909000000 Hz 4.7 dBmV 39.9 dB 0 0 16 Locked QAM256 23 915000000 Hz 4.7 dBmV 39.9 dB 0 0 17 Locked QAM256 24 921000000 Hz 3.8 dBmV 40.3 dB 0 0 18 Locked QAM256 34 363000000 Hz 1.5 dBmV 39.4 dB 0 0 19 Locked QAM256 35 369000000 Hz 1.4 dBmV 39.5 dB 0 0 20 Locked QAM256 36 375000000 Hz 1.6 dBmV 39.6 dB 0 0 21 Locked QAM256 37 381000000 Hz 1.4 dBmV 39.4 dB 0 0 22 Locked QAM256 38 387000000 Hz 1.3 dBmV 39.5 dB 0 0 23 Locked QAM256 39 393000000 Hz 1.1 dBmV 39.3 dB 0 0 24 Locked QAM256 40 399000000 Hz 0.4 dBmV 38.6 dB 0 0 <tabindex=-1>Upstream Bonded Channels Channel Lock Status US Channel Type Channel ID Symbol Rate Frequency Power 1 Locked ATDMA 1 2560 Ksym/sec 17600000 Hz 45.3 dBmV 2 Locked ATDMA 2 5120 Ksym/sec 25800000 Hz 46.3 dBmV 3 Locked ATDMA 3 5120 Ksym/sec 32200000 Hz 45.5 dBmV 4 Locked ATDMA 4 5120 Ksym/sec 38600000 Hz 46.3 dBmV 5 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 6 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 7 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 8 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV I've gotten to the point where I am just randomly replacing cables... i'm not sure where i'll end up but in any case I work from home so this puts a real hamper on my day. Thanks all.