Well after a few days of stability, it looks as though I'm back to losing sync every now again and back on QPSK.
Cable Modem Upstream
Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 1
Upstream Frequency : 18800000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QPSK
Upstream Symbol Rate : 2560 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 47.5 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 2
Cable Modem Event Log
First Time Last Time Priority Description
Tue Sep 13 13:17:21 2011 Tue Sep 13 13:17:21 2011 Critical (3) Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - ...
Tue Sep 13 11:40:29 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:29 2011 Information (7) CableModem software upgrade failed
Tue Sep 13 11:40:29 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:29 2011 Error (4) SW upgrade Failed after download - Incompatible SW file
Tue Sep 13 11:40:29 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:29 2011 Information (7) SW dload: Invalid image signature!
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Notice (6) SW Download INIT - Via Config file dsfd;kfoA,.iyewrkldJ
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) CableModem software download started
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) Software upgrade has started.
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) A software upgrade filename was specified in the config file.
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) Authorized
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) Registration complete!
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) We registered with a DOCSIS 1.1 config file!
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) Received a REG-RSP message from the CMTS...
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) Sending a REG-REQ to the CMTS...
Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:25 2011 Information (7) CableModem SNMP configure complete
Tue Sep 13 11:40:24 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:24 2011 Information (7) IP init completed ok
Tue Sep 13 11:40:24 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:40:24 2011 Information (7) CableModem TFTP init ok
Tue Sep 13 11:39:45 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:45 2011 Information (7) CableModem DHCP client init ok
Tue Sep 13 11:39:45 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:45 2011 Critical (3) DHCP WARNING - Non-critical field invalid in response.
Tue Sep 13 11:39:37 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:37 2011 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Tue Sep 13 11:39:30 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:30 2011 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Tue Sep 13 11:39:30 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:30 2011 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Tue Sep 13 11:39:29 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:29 2011 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Tue Sep 13 11:39:29 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:29 2011 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Tue Sep 13 11:39:28 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:28 2011 Information (7) Downstream sync ok
Tue Sep 13 11:39:28 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:28 2011 Information (7) Beginning initial ranging...
Tue Sep 13 11:39:28 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:28 2011 Information (7) downstream time sync acquired...
Tue Sep 13 11:39:28 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:28 2011 Information (7) Downstream sync ok
Tue Sep 13 11:39:27 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:27 2011 Information (7) starting ds time sync acquisition...
Tue Sep 13 11:39:25 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:25 2011 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Tue Sep 13 11:39:14 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:14 2011 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Tue Sep 13 11:39:14 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:14 2011 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Tue Sep 13 11:39:03 2011 Tue Sep 13 11:39:03 2011 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out