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Wednesday, August 27th, 2025

Constant nightly "maintenance", service disconnections, and no straight answers?!

I have Xfinity 1Gbps internet-only service.

every night, I get a TXT message from Xfinity
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Hi, it's Xfinity Assistant.
We're notifying you of upcoming planned maintenance in your area scheduled for 08/26, affecting service at (address). Work should occur overnight, and during this time, you may experience interruptions to all of your services. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Txt help or stop
Msg&DataRatesMayApply
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then every morning I get
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We've completed work for the day in your area, but we have to return on 08/27 for additional work. Your service at (ADDRESS) should be up and running now. Thank you for your patience and for being an Xfinity customer.

Are you still experiencing a service issue?
1 - I'm still having an issue
2 - Everything is working
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This has been going on for many weeks*.  I'm staring at the last ~15 days' of TXT messages ...

Each night, my service is disconnected for minutes-to-hours.  About half the time, I need to reset my modem in the morning.

There's no explanation of what's going on.

I've been in online chat asking for explanation of what's going on, and why I'm paying for 'continuous' service that's constantly being disconnected.

Their response?  They try to upsell me a mobile phone line.
After 'clarifying' to them that there's zero chance of that ever happening, I end up asking for a supervisor.

After a very long hold, one comes online, spends time re-reading the entire thread, tells me they need a "few moments to work on it", then disconnects the session.

Next, I tried to schedule a callback@

   xfinity.com/support/schedule-callback

only to get

   "The Xfinity Assistant can answer most questions
     and connect you with a chat agent if needed.
     ...
     callback is not currently available. We apologize for the inconvenience."

I next *called* the phone 1 (877) 338- 9791 above, and managed (only) to get to a Human in Billing/Cancellations; all other paths seem to take you to endless Voice Trees, offers to use TXT or online chat, blah blah.  The Billing staff person finally acknolwedged the problem after talking to their Technical Support team, and said to get a clear explanation I need to be transferred to them.

I was placed on hold ... waiting to be routed to the "next available representative".
I eventually get to someone, and explain the issue.

Their response ? To attempt to "reset my TV box" (which I do not have).  Once that's clarified, and I "reemphasize" that I expect some answers about why this is happening every [Edited: "Language"] night, I'm put on hold; in a few minutes, the 'new news'? "There's planned maintenance in your area scheduled for tomorrow".

You think?  That's the point! It's every night, night after night! With no explanation/reason provided!

Now, back in the conversations, I just got asked "What are the weather conditions in your area".
Apart from the facts that (1) you'd hope they know, and (2) it's been sunny and hot ... ::facepalm::!

Eventually, after more hold, I hear "Yes, there is maintenance.  To provide you excellent service ..."

uh-huh. Riiiiight. "Excellent service".

How about absolute refusal -- or complete inability -- to provide any answers as to what's going on, and why I'm paying for service and getting this rate/frequency of disconnect?

I cut it short, and asked for yet-another-supervisor.  I was put on hold they just joined the call ...  I started to reexplain the situation to them, focusing on the need for getting some straight answers.
In mid-sentence, I was disconnected ... to a ring-busy tone.

I can't agree more with the countless comments here, and elsewhere -- worst customer service ever.

Hey Xfinity -- what's it take to get straight answers and receive the service we pay for, without the endless area-wide service disconnections, constant platitudes, upsells, and hang-ups?

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2 days ago

Concern moved here to the Customer Service help section for greater exposure to Comcast corporate employees (The Digital Care Team) for assistance.

Visitor

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As time passes, memory of 

 https://www.scorebuddyqa.com/blog/7-companies-known-for-having-the-worst-customer-service#1_comcast_one_of_the_companies_known_for_having_the_worst_customer_service

fades.  Until you have a 'new' breathtakingly horrible Customer Service experience.  Which is what's been going on over in "DMs".

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I've lost track of the # of "agents" & "supervisors" that have cycled through that thread, spouting claptrap jewels like:

     "I understand how frustrating it can be when your services are not working as expected. These days we do so much from home and we want you to be able to enjoy your services to the fullest."

and

    "Our team is corporate, and you're in excellent hands with us."

while not once wrapping their heads around the repeated-until-I'm-blue-in-the-face issue that's these constant nightly maintenance windows & disconnects that have been happening for many weeks -- and have kept happening while the thread's progressed!

They've tried the usual "it's your modem, try resetting it" lame excuses -- ignoring that it's got nothing to do with whether my modem's even plugged in -- it's a system-wide issue.  Multiple neighbors on the street are getting these same messages.  Is *my* modem magically their problem too?

The cherry on top is them scheduling -- Against my explicit instructions! -- a Saturday appointment for a tech to come out to 'investigate my inside wiring'.  and, their ongoing refusal to cancel the appointment, which I neither made nor requested, despite being repeatedly told to do so!

My bad for having forgotten how bad they're known to be -- or paying closer attention to the endless excuses, with no solution, that users in these forums get. 

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@EG​ 

"We ask that you post publicly so people with similar questions may benefit from the conversation."

It was afaict.  It's been since changed to private.

Can you shed any light as to why & by whom, and what needs to be done to make it public again?

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2 days ago

Hi user_edf38f! Thanks for visiting our Xfinity Forum. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know about the continuous disconnects and 'upcoming planned maintenance' texts you've been receiving. I absolutely understand how inconvenient and frustrating this would be. So I apologize for all the complications you've run into trying to get support with this. We most certainly want to further look into and investigate this for you. My team is here to help! To best assist you with this, please send us a Direct Message. Here are the detailed steps to direct message us: 
 • Click "Sign In" if necessary
 • Click the "Direct Message icon” (upper right corner of this page)
 • Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon
 • Type "Xfinity Support" in the To line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list
 • Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window
 • Press Enter to send your message

 

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DM created.
References this message and the existing Tier2 ticket #.
If there's more runaround there, I'll bring the discussion back here -- in full public view.

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Visitor

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1 day ago

I opened a thread the other day.

As requested

    " I am not a Comcast Employee.
      I am a Customer Expert volunteering my time to help other customers here in the Forums.
      We ask that you post publicly so people with similar questions may benefit from the conversation."


it was apparently, public.


It was then moved

"Concern moved here to the Customer Service help section for greater exposure to Comcast corporate employees (The Digital Care Team) for assistance."

where I "enjoyed" a long, un-productive ... discussion with "Corporate Team:".

The original these' been since marked as private -- I _assume_ no longer visible to others?  By whom, or why, is unclear.

Any idea how to change it back?

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Issue/Post marked PRIVATE -- by whom/why, unclear. How do you switch BACK to PUBLIC?

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