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Xfinity By Comcast Down? Users Report Outage Wednesday Night As Downdetector Tracks Rising Complaints Today

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13.08.2026

Xfinity customers began reporting problems with their internet, TV and phone service Wednesday night, according to outage-tracking service Downdetector, in what appeared to be a developing disruption affecting the Comcast-owned provider's network.

Downdetector said user reports indicating problems with Xfinity by Comcast began climbing at 10:03 p.m. Eastern time. The tracking service posted about the rising number of reports on its official account on the social platform X, asking affected users to describe how the outage was impacting them and tagging the post with the hashtag "XfinityByComcastDown."

As of Wednesday night, Comcast had not issued a detailed public statement addressing the scope, cause or expected resolution timeline for the reported disruption. Downdetector's tracking methodology relies on real-time, user-submitted reports rather than direct access to Comcast's internal network diagnostics, meaning the true scale of the outage, including how many customers were affected and in which regions, remained difficult to independently verify in the disruption's early stages.

Separate outage-tracking service Geoblackout logged a wave of Xfinity-related outage reports earlier Wednesday afternoon, breaking down the nature of the complaints as roughly 67% tied to landline internet service, 20% tied to mobile........

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