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Old 13-03-2012, 14:11   #31
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

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It drops wifi, and cycles between connecting and disconnecting until I reboot the router. As to using my netgear 3700 with the shub in modem mode, well the tech forgot to leave me the power adapter ( he used my netgear one to power the shub ) so I cannot do it til they send me a new adapter.

I use InSSIDer to find the best channel. The only one that works well is channel 11, all others get stupidly low speeds of 5.5mbps - 40mbps whereas channel 11 works @ 300.

I had zero wireless issues with my 3700, it jsut this pos shub.
I got a better performance using 2.4ghz at 145mbps. 300mbps only worked with 5ghz.

Mind you it's all irrevalent as the only solution to superhub probems is modem mode in conjunction with a decent wireless router.

Good luck with it anyway.
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Old 13-03-2012, 21:23   #32
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

I having exactly the same issue today the internet connection drops every 3-5 minutes, if the VM can't provide 50MB when they talking crap about boosting the speed for customers, as they don't have enough network capacity - overselling and misleading is their sales technique - need to contact Trading Standards as their service is not up to service level!

My modem shows constantly the following error logs:
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Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Ranging Request Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Warning (5) B-INIT-RNG Failure - Retries exceeded
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Ranging Request Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Ranging Request Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Ranging Request Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Warning (5) Lost MDD Timeout;CM-MAC=00:22:68:f2:ba:94;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;
Time Not Established Time Not Established Warning (5) MDD message timeout;CM-MAC=00:22:68:f2:ba:94;CMTS-MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;
Tue Mar 13 15:46:29 2012 Tue Mar 13 15:46:29 2012 Warning (5) MIMO Event MIMO: Stored MIMO=0 post cfg file MIMO=-1;CM-MAC=[Removed MAC Address];CM-QOS=1.0;CM-VER=3.0;
Tue Mar 13 15:46:45 2012 Tue Mar 13 15:48:29 2012 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Tue Mar 13 15:48:32 2012 Tue Mar 13 15:48:32 2012 Warning (5) B-INIT-RNG Failure - Retries exceeded
Tue Mar 13 15:48:34 2012 Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Warning (5) B-INIT-RNG Failure - Retries exceeded
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Warning (5) B-INIT-RNG Failure - Retries exceeded
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Ranging Request Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Warning (5) B-INIT-RNG Failure - Retries exceeded
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Tue Mar 13 15:57:47 2012 Tue Mar 13 15:57:47 2012 Warning (5) MIMO Event MIMO: Stored MIMO=0 post cfg file MIMO=-1;CM-MAC=[Removed MAC Address];CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;
Tue Mar 13 16:04:28 2012 Tue Mar 13 17:46:17 2012 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Tue Mar 13 17:46:20 2012 Tue Mar 13 17:46:20 2012 Critical (3) Ranging Request Retries exhausted
Tue Mar 13 17:46:20 2012 Tue Mar 13 17:46:20 2012 Critical (3) Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted
Tue Mar 13 17:46:37 2012 Tue Mar 13 17:47:56 2012 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Tue Mar 13 17:47:58 2012 Tue Mar 13 17:47:58 2012 Critical (3) Ranging Request Retries exhausted
Tue Mar 13 17:47:58 2012 Tue Mar 13 17:47:58 2012 Critical (3) Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted
Tue Mar 13 17:48:12 2012 Tue Mar 13 17:49:49 2012 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Tue Mar 13 17:49:54 2012 Tue Mar 13 17:49:54 2012 Warning (5) B-INIT-RNG Failure - Retries exceeded
Tue Mar 13 17:49:55 2012 Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Time Not Established Time Not Established Warning (5) B-INIT-RNG Failure - Retries exceeded
Time Not Established Time Not Established Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
as for status:
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Acquired Downstream Channel 315 MHz Primary Downstream Locked
Ranged Upstream Channel 45.8 MHz Other
Provisioning State In Progress Ranging In Progress
Ethernet Link Status Up 100 Mbps/Full duplex
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Acquired Downstream Channel 315 MHz Primary Downstream Locked
Ranged Upstream Channel 45.8 MHz Other
Provisioning State In Progress DHCPv4 In Progress
Ethernet Link Status Up 100 Mbps/Full duplex
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Old 13-03-2012, 21:45   #33
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

Hi Alexander

Two points:

1/
Can we please see the full modem stats including the Operational Configuration? That may provide some correlating information.

2/
In your opinion or as a result of observation, are those messages occuring during a modem reboot? It looks to me that the are and that the stats might point to the cause.

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Old 14-03-2012, 00:30   #34
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

Thank you for your reply.

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Can we please see the full modem stats including the Operational Configuration? That may provide some correlating information.
yes, sure:
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Cable Modem Operation Configuration
General Configuration
Network Access : Allowed
Maximum Number of CPEs : 1
Baseline Privacy : Enabled
DOCSIS Mode : DOCSIS 3.0
Config File : V668732788139190d.cm
Primary Downstream Service Flow
SFID : 31042
Max Traffic Rate : 53000000 bps
Max Traffic Burst : 10000 bytes
Min Traffic Rate : 0 bps
Primary Upstream Service Flow
SFID : 2072
Max Traffic Rate : 5140000 bps
Max Traffic Burst : 8160 bytes
Min Traffic Rate : 0 bps
Max Concatenated Burst : 8160 bytes
Scheduling Type : Best Effort
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Cable Modem Downstream
DS-1 DS-2 DS-3 DS-4
Frequency 291000000 299000000 307000000 315000000
Lock Status
(QAM Lock/FEC Sync/MPEG Lock) Y/Y/Y Y/Y/Y Y/Y/Y Y/Y/Y
Channel Id 1 2 3 4
Modulation 256QAM 256QAM 256QAM 256QAM
Symbol Rate
(Msym/sec) 6.952 6.952 6.952 6.952
Interleave Depth I=12
J=17 I=12
J=17 I=12
J=17 I=12
J=17
Power Level
(dBmV) 5.26 5.14 5.33 5.32
RxMER
(dB) 37.09 37.64 37.64 37.94
Correctable
Codewords 10 1 4 1
Uncorrectable
Codewords 293 272 284 304
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Cable Modem Upstream
US-1 US-2 US-3 US-4
Channel Type 2.0 N/A N/A N/A
Channel ID 2 N/A N/A N/A
Frequency
(Hz) 35800000 N/A N/A N/A
Ranging Status Success N/A N/A N/A
Modulation 16QAM N/A N/A N/A
Symbol Rate
(KSym/sec) 5120 N/A N/A N/A
Mini-Slot Size 4 N/A N/A N/A
Power Level
(dBmV) 40.21 N/A N/A N/A
T1 Timeouts 0 0 0 0
T2 Timeouts 0 0 0 0
T3 Timeouts 117 0 0 0
T4 Timeouts 0 0 0 0
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Cable Modem Upstream Burst



US-1


Req


Init Maint


Per Maint


Adv Short


Adv Long


Adv UGS


(1)


(3)


(4)


(9)


(10)


(11)
Modulation Type QPSK QPSK QPSK 16QAM 16QAM 16QAM
Differential Encoding OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF
Preamble Length 64 640 384 96 104 104
Preamble Value Offset 652 6 6 1028 1028 1028
FEC Error Correction (T) 0 5 5 6 8 8
FEC Codeword Information Bytes (k) 16 34 34 75 219 219
Maximum Burst Size 0 0 0 6 0 0
Guard Time Size 8 48 48 8 8 8
Last Codeword Length FIX FIX FIX SHORT SHORT SHORT
Scrambler on/off ON ON ON ON ON ON
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In your opinion or as a result of observation, are those messages occuring during a modem reboot? It looks to me that the are and that the stats might point to the cause.
Not during modem reboot, also idle mode, as this issue was the whole day, the modem was rebooted only 5 times.

The cable modem event log is normally full with the above posted critical errors and warnings.
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

The stats are nominal. Which makes it all the more difficult to diagnose.

In the event log, wherever a MIMO event occurs, that's a reboot. The B-INIT-RNG event is also a reboot, which will have been initiated from the VM end if the modem has lost contact with the CMTS.

So that looks to me to be in the network somewhere. You might care to call support in office hours and keep trying till you get a UK agent. They can jump on and see what's happening.
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

Hope I am not speaking too soon, but my complaining seems to have paid off. Also running @ 145mbps seems to have solved the wireless issue. I have not been suffering as much latency issues, although as you can see from my live graph I lost internet today for a bit. Just did a speedtest and got full 50mbps.

Wonder what, if anything, they did? It seemed to get better after my connection died on the night of my last complaint from 12am - 6am? Any ideas?
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

have you replaced the power supply adapter for the correct adapter?
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have you replaced the power supply adapter for the correct adapter?
Not yet, they tried to deliver it today but was out. So need to call to arrange it to be redelivered.
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

few things you need to know...

for sure you need to get rid of that power adapter youve currently got connected.

there'll be a new SH within the package, you may as well install from fresh, both the new SH and adapter.

send back your old SH, there'll be a Royal pre paid sticker within the package, should be, might not be. but that adapter you've got for the VMNG, either mark it clearly so VM know its incorrect when they open the return or throw the adapter away and just send back your current SH.
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

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few things you need to know...

for sure you need to get rid of that power adapter youve currently got connected.

there'll be a new SH within the package, you may as well install from fresh, both the new SH and adapter.

send back your old SH, there'll be a Royal pre paid sticker within the package, should be, might not be. but that adapter you've got for the VMNG, either mark it clearly so VM know its incorrect when they open the return or throw the adapter away and just send back your current SH.
Oh right, so it is a new SH? Wondered why I needed to sign for it! Cheers mate.
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Re: WTF is up with my connection?

yeah they don't send out individual power adapters, you get the whole new install kit
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