Bandwidth Issues with RCN?

[tom-champion.livejournal.com]

Has anybody else been experiencing performance issues this week with RCN internet access?  The CNET Bandwidth Meter shows me at  724 Kbps, and intermittenlty even slower, which is well below usual speeds.

Just curious .  . .

Also, hope to see folks at the Shakespeare Slam on Sunday at the Burren.  The Bard and beer generally blend quite well. 

ONE DAY LATER: Thanks to everyone who commented.  It surely sounds as if there is something going on with RCN's access speeds here in Somerville, and that it varies by time and location.  It's too bad: my service had been growing steadily speedier and more reliable in the past four years.  In fact,  I haven't seen performance fluctuations like these since the early 00s (pronounced "aughts," I think -- "naughts" if you're British).  I'm gonna give it a few days to see if it calms down, and then I'm going to try complaining to the local RCN engineering team.  (Having been unemployed since late February, I'm gradually recasting my professional identity as that of a reclusive curmudgeon.  Soon you'll be seeing me on my front stoop in my bathrobe, yelling "You kids pipe down, dammit" at innocent passersby.)    

Somerville made the national news

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Okay, so it isn't necessarily real, but our great city got mentioned in the Onion.

I live alone and I was very happy to know that I'm not alone in my soul crushing loneliness. ;)