After having my 75 MB speeds from RCN for many years and never hitting that number but coming very close, I usually blamed RCN for the speed drop offs and the thought that I told all my neighbors about the speeds with rcn and they all switched over and my thought was they were using up all the bandwidth
. I have their latest modem and was using a Linksys router. Decided to switch routers because of having some wireless issues with everyone connecting at home. Went to a Trendnet router, model TEW-812DRU after reading the reviews and PC Mag listing it as the best. WOW!!!! What a difference. My speeds are smoking fast, and the router is the best purchase I could have made. Everyone stays connected and I am the hero at home. And here is the crazy part, did the speed test on the RCN site and with the Linksys, I was always in spec but right now completely out of spec with this router, but it doesn't matter, still smoking fast. My next call is probably to a tech to see why out of spec but my guess would have to be the router settings. Anyway, before blaming rcn for the issues, maybe a new router could be the answer. It was for me.