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Re: [EXT] Xfinity (both ends) - can't ping from users home to office


From: Chuck Anderson <cra () wpi edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:12:49 -0400

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:57:12PM +0000, Spencer Coplin wrote:
I have a client that is unable to ping his office Comcast Business connection from his home Xfinity connection. It 
was working a month ago and we can confirm that his connection works over his iphone's hotspot. I am able to ping 
from my own xfinity residential (same city) without issues. I suspect something in the routing from his home 
connection is messed up as tracert/ping can't even resolve his office's IP. The client called Xfinity residential 
support and they blamed the inability to ping the IP on his office vpn connection.

Has anyone else his this and if so, how was it resolved?

Sort of.  Try having him change the MAC address of his residential CPE router so the BNG sees it as a "new" device.  In 
my case that resolved connectivity issues after Comcast did some "network maintenance" and broke everything for me.

Alternatively, have you tried working this issue from the Business side?  You'd probably get more leverage that way.


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