3g Microcell and Charter Cable

If you could pack up some of that snow and send it West, we'd really appreciate it! It's raining here now but it may be too little too late

It is great to see this all come together and result in a fix for the affected Mcell customers.  I wonder how long it would have taken if this forum didn't exist?  Hats off to Otto for his efforts and to Charter for reacting as they did to resolve their hardware issues.

That being said, after seeing the recent issues with Charter, TWC and HT, there is a common thread to this and that is the initial finger-pointing where the ISP blames AT&T and AT&T blames the ISP.  I think this is mainly a front-line response where Tier One customer support people don't have enough information to accurately assess the problem and take the easy way out.

That's why this forum is so important.  Information from users is accumulated, discussed and then forwarded to the proper people who have access to the resources necessary to resolve the problem.  It's unfortunate that it takes a grass-roots effort to get the powers-that-be to react to problems like these but that's just the way it is.

All you affected Charter customers that had your Mcell service interrupted should give Otto a Kudos for all his efforts to bring this problem to the people who had the power to fix it.  Without him monitoring this forum and using his connections, you most likely would still not have your Mcell service restored.

My two cents....

Definitely huge kudos for Otto! Thanks for all you've done in this thread!!!

-Mariana

All,

I'm in a similar situation but my MicroCell is still not working properly, even after the patch push to all Charter sites.

I'm in Smyrna, GA.  Has the patch been pushed out to my location?  My symptom is is that I can hear the other party perfectly but they can't hear me very well.  My voice is garbled to them.

Here's my network setup:

- Charter HSI 30/3 package

- Cable Modem: Motorola SB6141; 8-Channel Bonding is active

- Router: Netgear N750

- The Microcell is plugged into the router

- All status lights on the MicroCell are solid green (minus the Computer port as I don't use that one)

I've of course power-cycled everything, in the proper order, tried a different Ethernet cable to the MicroCell, tried a different port on the router, along with trying to set up port forwarding within the router.

Can anyone give me an idea of what's causing this?  It has been happening for at least 1 month now.

Thanks.

If this is the same Charter issue you'll have to contact Charter. I know they were going to be pushing the hardware fix to the areas that  had already been upgraded because they reported the issues first, so as they move throughout their network with the upgrades, issues may arise and will have to be addressed on a service area basis. Contact Charter because there isn't anything that AT&T can do if this is related to the recent network hardware upgrade.

Thanks Otto Pylot, will do.

Regards.

The Charter engineer who was posting here had the user name of railpass. I don't know if he still checks this forum but you might want to send him a PM. He was very helpful to the members here.

Good idea Otto.  I've sent him a PM as well.

Thanks.

acouse's problem is different than the others who posted here.  He is not getting a flashing 3G light like they did.  If his only symptom is outgoing garbled speech,  my first suspicion would be some sort of outgoing packet loss/jitter problem due to a line quality issue.  Since his system was working properly before, something has changed on Charter's side as I'm assuming that his setup/equipment has not changed.

Go to this website and run the VOIP test and post your results here.  Make sure to open the "Advanced" tab after running the test and post those numbers.

www.onsip.com/tools/voip-test

You may want to also contact Charter and have them send a tech out to test your line, but I'd run the test first to see if there is anything obvious going on with your connection.