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When requesting help regarding connectivity issues the more information you can provide in these areas the more likely it is somebody will be able to help you:

  1. Have you called Charter support at 1-888-GET-CHARTER (438-2427)?

  2. The hardware -- What make and model of equipment are you using? Have you power cycled your equipment? If you're having connectivity issues and there is a hub, router, or switch in place, does the problem remain if you bypass any of these devices and connect your cable modem directly to your PC's NIC?

  3. Have you made any changes to your hardware configuration recently? If so, please describe.

  4. Have you performed a:

    and if so, post the results.

  5. Your software. Are you running a firewall or intrusion detection software and if so, what is it?

  6. Viruses. What, if any, anti-virus software are you running and is it up to date?

  7. Spy-ware. What, if any, antispyware software are you running and is it up to date?

  8. In what City and State are you located?

  9. In your opinion, what is the connectivity problem? (speed issue, loss of sync, dropped packets, other)

  10. Provide any other information that you think will help others help you.


Please, thank you, and other common courtesies are always appreciated!





Feedback received on this FAQ entry:
  • Dropped audio for 3 seconds occurs a few times a day and also this morning + last night line noise made picture have a line of distortion. Charter had 2 different trucks roll but could not find problem. Lineman came out and he could not find a problem. One truck changed an old box and put in component cables saying it was the HDMI cord didn't help but lower the 1080i to 1080p . Can charter fix this problem?

    2016-10-15 12:15:16

  • http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/5005739 grade F for quality with Charter

    2016-09-15 10:04:23

  • If your business is using an SMC modem and running a large number of computers/devices and you are experiencing intermittent drop-out, loss of upload bandwidth, and or long latency request a modem swap out to a UBee model. This fixed my problems after 2 months of tech callouts, phone calls to the local manager and a swap to the newer SMC modem (which was worse than the older model). Note, these problems occurred at completely random times - day and night but had one thing in common - the modem lights always looked normal and the only way to restore normal operation / bandwidth was to POWER CYCLE the modem.

    2015-01-22 22:19:12



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by nozero See Profile edited by skj See Profile
last modified: 2016-10-15 21:10:26