[Phone] RCN Plain Old Telephone Service
I just noticed that RCN is offering plain old telephone service with unlimited nationwide calling for $29.99. Verizon is selling the same service for over $50/month. How did this happen that a cable...
View Article[CATV] Phone down; slow Net; cable spotty [Montgomery County, MD
I live in Silver Spring, MD (Montgomery County). Our cable television, landline phone and cable Internet have been acting up since around noon today (April 19, 2013). The Internet is slow, the...
View Article[Tivo] Previews no longer work - Easton, PA
So in an effort to reduce my bill, I had RCN install the VOIP phone. Customer service recommended I have a separate modem for the phone(I already have one for my internet). Well apparently adding this...
View Article[Connectivity] [Speed - Chicago]- Slow speeds
Encoded Mac: a340bdebf16533fd28b920362a6e92ac77cb531c Should be at 25 MBS
View Article[Speed] Woodside - Queens, NY
This has been getting worse over the course of a few months now. other than a few hours a day of good traffic, every single day speeds have been dropping and now it's become ridiculous.
View Article[TiVo] Bug in TiVo firmware?
I think I may have found a bug in the TiVo firmware. I was in the settings menu getting the MAK key and then I started playing a show using my cell phone. After the episode finished, I was brought out...
View Article[CATV] RCN to Encrypt Basic Cable, Boxes Needed on ALL TVs even
Last fall, the FCC gave cable companies an early Christmas present: when their systems become all digital, they can encrypt/scramble even basic or limited basic cable channels. This means that EVERY TV...
View Article[CATV] Boston Basic Channels Encrypted Today - 4/10/13
As promised, RCN encrypted all local basic channels today (April 10th). Blank screens seen everywhere in and around Boston (and other metro areas where RCN scrambled all formerly in-the-clear...
View Article[Connectivity] [Chicago] Weird OpenDNS Routing
I live in Chicago and use OpenDNS for my DNS servers, however it seems that I am routed to the DC area when routing to the OpenDNS servers instead of the servers located a stones throw away here in the...
View ArticleMoving to Rogers Park
Ok, I'll be moving to Rogers Park next month, and I'm moving into a 120 year old house. I'll have the upstairs (basically top floor has kitchen, 2 bath, 4 BR, living room, etc). but the downstairs...
View Article[Connectivity] SB6141 errors in logs. sw upgrade-Astoria, NY
This is a new modem just purchased from best buy retail. The problem is when you check the logs it shows that some type of file needed to get upgraded and it failed. Tried resetting a few times but...
View Article[Need Info] Phillies Baseball
Why are Phillies spring training games blacked out on MLB network if RCN doesn't provide The Comcast Network in it's lineup. I can understand it when Comcast Sportsnet carries the game simultaneously...
View Article[Connectivity] Major latency and packet loss in NYC
Anyone else having issue? Here is my encoded MAC: 843e9bb2fb3c3fcb9aeb56f868d6928fc089ee44
View Article[TiVo] Chicago upgrade to 20.2.2
Next Week we will map all Chicago Based TiVo's to the new 20.2.2 software release.. Q's and Previews will download code monday night and all premieres will download Wednesday early morning.. Here's a...
View Article[TiVo] Setting up Recording from Tivo Preview and other Qs?
Hi RCN Folks. Im currently a FiOS subscriber after being unsuccessful at getting RCN to bring my rate down without cutting services. Anyway, Ill likely be back to being an RCN customer sometime in...
View Article[TiVo] VOD on my TiVo not working - Chicago, IL
It keeps saying it cannot connect to service at this time. I restarted my TiVo and at first, it wouldn't even let me get to the VOD page, the error popped up there. After a while, I could see the list,...
View Article[Equipment] Input button on TIVO and other remotes
I am having a repeated problem with the over age 75 crowd. They keep accidently hitting the INPUT button on the TIVO remote or the other remotes provided by RCN. The INPUT button controls the TV input....
View Article[CATV] RCN changing business model? Bethlehem, PA
RCN seems to be changing the business model of CATV. It is difficult to tell the details from their website, because they are not making a big deal about it. Conventional Cable was that you always had...
View Article[Speed] Another Complaint re Internet Speed in Allentown
Why am I paying for 25/2 Mbps service, when the last few evenings I have been seeing average download speeds of 3 to 5 Mbps??? This pervasive horribly slow service seems to be the new standard for RCN...
View Article[Speed] RCN Chicago Lakeview - Unusable at peak hours
For the last 3 days, and intermittently prior to that, our internet has been nearly unusable from at least 4-8PM. Pings to google.com timeout more than 40% of the time and sites load maybe 1 in 20...
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