[SOLVED] Internet connection more unstable during weekends

[Rodrq]

Hello guys. It is sunday at the time of this post and I have a question.

I suspect my coaxial cable (It goes from the street cables to my room through the roof) is rusty or sulfated. At random intervals the connection will go off for some minutes.

The thing is: during weekends it goes off more frequently. Is this possible if I suspect my issue is cause by a faulty cable? Common sense tells me it is another issue, but ISP has told me several times all is good and I had 3 technicians come to my house to check the router and stuff, so the only thing left to blame is the external cable.

I have 300mbps so there are no bandwidth issues whatsoever, and I am also the only one in my area with these issues. Have friends a few blocks away with the same provider that don't have this problem

TL;DR: If I have a faulty coaxial cable that makes connection unstable, could high demand days such as weekends make the problem worse? Or does this show the cable is not the issue?

Thank you for trying to help an Internet stranger

 

[rgd1101]

sound like more people using it on the weekend.

 

[Rodrq]

sound like more people using it on the weekend.

I have 300mbps so there are no bandwidth issues whatsoever, and I am also the only one in my area with these issues. Have friends a few blocks away with the same provider that don't have this problem

Thanks. Will add this info to the post

 

[gggplaya]

Corroded cable will usually degrade the connection over time, the problem will get worse and worse as time moves on. It'll happen more frequently and progressively. An easy way to tell is by the amount of modem power gain required to maintain connection. What cable modem do you have? Can you log into it and check the signal details?

Does your internet slow down, or is it fast, then all of the sudden drops out? If it's random dropouts that take several minutes to recover, it's likely the transceiver on the modem is dying. I've see this happen to my parent's old cable modem. It would drop out randomly until one day, it dies altogether. I had to take the modem to the comcast office to swap for another unit. Intermittent problems are hard to diagnose remotely.

Is it only on 1 device? I had a lan port die in a similar fashion, random drops, then fully died. I had to add a USB to Ethernet adapter to that computer.

I also had an amazon firestick wifi die in the same fashion. Random drops, several minutes back up, then eventually went out completely.