Atlantic Broadband Outage ?

Bucky1818 · 03-10-2021, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by WinterHarborGuy

I’m on the other side of the lake with Atlantic BB, and I can tell you that EVERY day for the last month, my wifi drops at least once for 10 min. Usually afternoons.

Haven't seen a total outage of several hours for a few months. But the daily drops are annoying.

I had the same problem Every 10 Min wifi would fail

MAXUM · 03-10-2021, 06:07 PM

ABB has been doing infrastructure upgrades\replacements over the past year or so which likely explains the quick but frequent loss of signal.

The nice thing is that with it comes increased speeds and hopefully better stability. My service was recently bumped from 100mbps to 250 at no additional charge. It seems that my service since being bumped has been far more stable than prior.

mswlogo · 03-10-2021, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Bucky1818

I had the same problem Every 10 Min wifi would fail

ABB is a cable network provider, not a WiFi Provider.

If you decided to buy or rent their crap hardware that’s on you.
Most providers routers are crap.

I use my own modem and router on ABB as well as my own router with FIOS and it never has any issues.

I work from home as a software engineer with constant traffic and video conference and there are no issues.

You have an in house issue, not a ABB issue.

For the record I have a Net Gear Nighthawk CM1200 Modem. One that ABB listed.
And a RT-AC88U ASUS Router. ASUS Routers are great for many reasons.
I have to configure a few things manually or everything won’t work right.

For example I have to set Channel width to 20 MHz. If my Bryant thermostat sees 40Mhz (option) it won’t connect.

I always run 2.4 and 5.0Ghz on two separate SSID. Most routers combine them by default. This gives a lot of devices fits. 2.4 has more range but slower. So I put the right devices on the network they are most suited for. This solves lots of problems.

I also scan the local area for the quietest 2.4 channel and set the channel to that manually. Auto causes problems with some devices.

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MAXUM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kuna ID Posts: 2,755 Thanks: 246 Thanked 1,942 Times in 802 Posts	ABB has been doing infrastructure upgrades\replacements over the past year or so which likely explains the quick but frequent loss of signal. The nice thing is that with it comes increased speeds and hopefully better stability. My service was recently bumped from 100mbps to 250 at no additional charge. It seems that my service since being bumped has been far more stable than prior.