Tutor

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6 Messages

Monday, August 4th, 2014 5:28 PM

Picture Pixilation only at night

For some reason regradless if we are watching in HD or Non-HD the picture starts to pixilate off and on but only at night, which makes no sense to me. I have in the past powered off the Modem and powered it back on to get a new IP address which sometimes did help but not anymore. It is very frustrating when tryng to watch TV. You can  jump from the channel you are watching in HD to the same channel in non- HD and it would stop for a few minutes then start again.We have 2 HD TV's, 2 Dvrs and it happens on both of them no matter if you are watching 1 TV or 2 TV's and watching different channels. Like last night my husband was watching Football on CBS & I was in the other room watching HGTV. The line in from the AT&T box is copper not fiber optics my husband seems to think that is part of the problem and the demand is higher in the evening, we are probably 50 yards from the AT&T box.

Both TV's where pixilating, it was extremely irritaing.

Has anyone had this issue and was it resolved? I don't like to call tech support because in the past they have never been able to correct issues. The only way I ever issues resolved was on U-verse community forum.

ACE - Expert

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36.9K Messages

11 years ago

The pixilating could be caused by line errors inside your home or outside your home.  So that we can better assist:

  • What model Residential Gateway (RG) or modem do you have?
  • How are your TV Receivers connected to the RG (via Coax, Ethernet or Wireless)?
  • Have you tried running the AT&T Troubleshoot and Resolve tool (http://ufix.att.com) to see if it gives you any suggestions?
  • Do both TVs seem to have trouble at the same time?
  • How did you husband watch an football game on CBS last night when it was televised on NBC?

 

Tutor

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6 Messages

11 years ago

RG model is Awire 3800HGV 8

TV Receivers connected to RG via eternet

The only suggestion I got was to power off modem and power back on which I have done in the past doesn't work.

Yes both TV's have the same problem at the same time.

Sorry about hte football channel it was NBC my bad!!

ACE - Expert

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36.9K Messages

11 years ago

The fact that you're using Ethernet for both Receivers and that they're both having issues at the same time points towards intermittent line issues.

 

I'd like to see statistics on your line from a tool developed by another community member, SomeJoe7777.  Please download UV Realtime, install it, run it and post screenshots of the IP/Profile tab, Bitloading tab, Error Table tab, and Coax/HPNA tab.

To post screenshots in the forum, reply to this post and use the Insert/Edit Image button (it looks like a tree) in the post editor. One of us will look at your information and let you know what we think.

 

If you can't, or don't want to, run UV Realtime, then you can go to http://192.168.1.254 and browse around to the WAN statistics page, but they're better organized and analyzed in UVrealtime.

 

 

Tutor

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6 Messages

11 years ago

I tried to downlaod UV Realtime but it couldn't finish had an error of some sort. I wnet ot the http 192.168.254 and could not find WAN statistics page.

ACE - Expert

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36.9K Messages

11 years ago

Actually, I think the RG calls is "Broadband".

Tutor

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6 Messages

11 years ago

I have to go to work at this time but will try to get the info tomorrow
morning.

Thanks

Tutor

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6 Messages

11 years ago

This is all I could find cc the Broadband Stats. I had to copy & paste couldn't get a screenshot attached.

Summary Status

Internet

Connected

DSL Link

Connected

Internet Details

Broadband Link Type

Built in modem - VDSL

Connection Type

Direct IP (DHCP or Static)

Current Internet Connection

IP Address

 

Subnet Mask

255.255.252.0

Default Gateway

70.140.188.1

Primary DNS

68.94.156.1

Secondary DNS

68.94.157.9

Host Name

Domain

MAC Address

 

MTU

1500

DSL Details

Modem Type

Built in modem - VDSL

Connection Type

 

 

DSL Line

COAX

Down

Up

User Rate

32200 kbs

5040 kbs

Max User Rate

59775 kbs

6696 kbs

Noise Margin

24.0 dB

10.0 dB

Attenuation

6.6 dB

5.7 dB

Output Power

14.1 dBm

-24.4 dBm

Protocol

G.993.2

Channel

Interleaved

DSLAM Vendor Information

Country {65461} Vendor {CXSY} Specific {852 }

Attenuation @ 300kHz

2.8 dB

Final Receive Gain

-6.0 dB

Ok

Traffic Statistics

IP Traffic

Bytes

Packets

Errors

%

Transmit

6877379975

37841432

0

0

Receive

891915867393

653264938

7

0

DSL Link Errors

Collected for 57Days21:25:59

Since

Current

Current

Time Since

Reset

24-hr int.

15-min int.

Last Event

DSL

Link Retrains

0

0

0

0:00:00

DSL Training Errors

0

0

0

0:00:00

Training Timeouts

0

0

0

0:00:00

Loss of Framing Failures

0

0

0

0:00:00

Loss of Signal Failures

0

0

0

0:00:00

Loss of Power Failures

0

0

0

0:00:00

Loss of Margin Failures

0

0

0

0:00:00

Cm. Seconds w/Errors

92

12

0

1:29:24

Cm. Sec. w/Severe Errors

6

3

0

1:29:24

Corrected Blocks

171933

39308

0

1:27:49

Uncorrectable Blocks

610

147

0

1:29:24

DSL Unavailable Seconds

33

0

0

57Days21:25:24

[edited for privacy-please do not post personal information]

ACE - Master

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1.4K Messages

11 years ago

@getagrip_1 About four years ago, I had all kinds of issues with TV pixelqating and finally losing signal altogether, mainly at night.  It was an "outside" problem.  Dew (and or rainwater) was getting into bad AT&T wiring and boxes.  I would recommend that you send a private message to the escalation team at AT&T Customer Care, and someone will get in touch with you.  They should be able to tell you if it is an incoming (from AT&T) or an internal (something wrong inside your house).  Internal issues can be hard to pinpoint as it could be a "noisy" light fixture, power supply, etc....

Tutor

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6 Messages

11 years ago

I have sent the message to the escalation team in hopes that someone can get
this problem resolved. Thanks so much for the response cc the issue that we
are having. Also we didn't have any problem with pixilation last night.

ACE - Expert

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36.9K Messages

11 years ago

On the whole your line looks good: 32M/5M, lots of headroom.  However, you are getting some unrecoverable errors, which can cause pixelation.  While your counts are fairly low for being up for 2 months, the last 24 hours count (which I believe means since midnight) is actually pretty high.  It might be a good idea to reset the counters so you can see what the current rate of errors is.

 

PM'ing the U-verse cares group for help is the best way to get these errors cleaned up..

 

 


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