# RCN Corporation outage reports and status

Canonical page: https://iszdown.com/now/rcn

Status: Website reachable in latest check

24-hour window (UTC): 2026-10-18T06:00:00.000Z to 2026-10-19T06:00:00.000Z

Recorded outage reports in this window: 0

Last successful estimated-activity check: No usable observation available

RCN Corporation, originally Residential Communications Network, founded in 1993 and based in Princeton, New Jersey, was the first American facilities-based provider of bundled telephone, cable television, and internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network as well as dialup and DSL Internet service to consumers in the Boston, New York, eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles areas. As of 2006, RCN claimed over 424,000 domestic customers and 130 cable franchises. As of 2013 RCN's network offered coverage to approximately 3.8 million people, making it the 11th largest provider of cable Internet access in the U.S. Its operations, as well as sister companies Grande Communications, and Wave Broadband are handled under affiliate Patriot Media Consulting. RCN serves in or around the following locations: Allentown, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; New York City, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

## How to interpret this page

Estimated down reports are based on US Google Trends problem-intent searches. Values are relative activity from 0 to 100, not counts of submitted reports. The HTML chart averages samples into ten-minute intervals. Partial samples are excluded and missing samples are not invented.

Recorded outage reports and estimated activity are separate signals. Neither confirms that every user is affected. Missing or stale data does not establish that a service is working.

Methodology: https://iszdown.com/methodology

## Citation

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## Estimated activity samples

No usable Google Trends samples are available for this service in this window.

## Evidence and recovery

Website reachable in latest check. The public website responded; signed-in features and APIs were not tested.

No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.

## Website measurements

Successful sampled checks (24h): 100% (3/3). Restricted checks: 0. Median response: 1131 ms. P95 response: 1195 ms.

These are sampled public website checks from one US server, not continuous uptime or authenticated app/API tests. Missing data stays unknown.


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