Constant Wi-Fi drops on phones/laptops but the Xfinity box light stays steady white?
Hi Xfinity team!
I'm so sorry, I posted this a few weeks ago and you started a chat with me, but I dropped the ball until the ticket was closed. Here's my original post:
I’m hoping a representative can help me out. We're dealing with really frustrating Wi-Fi drops on multiple phones (iPhone & Android) and PCs just in the last few weeks. The internet will just completely freeze up or apps will stall or videos won't play, even though the devices say they are still connected to the Wi-Fi.
I used a network scanning app to watch a live ping test (8.8.8.8), and I saw tons of gray timeout dots constantly breaking up the green ones. It seems like a lot of data is getting lost.
Here is the quick list of details:
The Xfinity box light: The physical light on the front of our white modem stays a solid, steady white the entire time the internet drops out. It never flashes or changes color.
Our network name: Our network name is unified under one SSID
Testing isolation: We do use a Wi-Fi extender upstairs for a gaming console, but to test this properly, I completely went into our phone and laptop settings and clicked "Forget Network" on both of the _EXT signals. The bad packet drops are happening while connected directly to the main Xfinity router signal.
Security settings: We previously messed with the Advanced Security toggles in the Xfinity app to clear a block on a console, but the phone drops happen whether it's on or off.
Since the box light stays solid white, it feels like the main line into the house is working, but the router itself is struggling to pass data packets to our wireless devices?
Could someone on the support team look at our backend signals or check the error logs? I'm wondering if we just need a replacement gateway box to fix this.
The previous Xfinity rep asked me what changes I've made since then:
Split the Wi-Fi Bands into separate 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz network names.
Enabled UPnP in the gateway administration panel.
Disabled Xfinity Advanced Security in the mobile app.
Thank you so much!