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09/15/2026 8:13 PM

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Xfinity wifi in low -7xdbm, intermittently cuts out several days after a gateway reboot

Hi,

One of my cable boxes has a low dbm wifi connection. If I reboot the gateway it will be good for several days and then start to cut out intermittenly.

I've tried adding an extender pod but the cable box doesn't seem to switch over to the extender, still reports a low level wifi connection. The cable box is an Xi6.

thank you

Mike

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6 days ago

Hey there, @user_5rtasx! Thank you so much for taking the time to reach out to us here on the Xfinity Forums! I am very sorry to hear about the experience with the cable box and the signal concerns. I do appreciate you sharing the steps you have completed. I would be more than happy to further dive into the account and troubleshoot with you further. Can you please send us a DM to get started? 

 

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6 days ago

@user_5rtasx @XfinityAdrienne 

Please circle back here and post any possible solutions for the issue here in these open public forums so that all readers here may benefit from the exchange / info. This is in keeping with the spirit for which these public help forums were originally intended. Thank you.

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The pod ultimately corrected the problem, the issue was that even though the Xfinity app said that the pod was activated, it wasn'y on Xfinity's end. t needed to be activated manually.

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@user_5rtasx That's great to hear. Thanks for sharing that here. If you need any further assistance, please start a new post.

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