said by Adelphia website:

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Unfortunately, these viruses have impacted the Adelphia network significantly. You may be noticing slow speeds, regular disconnections or no connection at all. We are working to stabilize our network quickly and appreciate your patience while we do this.

In order to continue to stabilize our network, Adelphia will be taking additional measures that will impact a small group of Internet customers that use ping commands. Low-level pings (less than 100 bytes), DOS based commands used to determine Internet access in troubleshooting processes, will be blocked for an undetermined amount of time. If you use pings, you may not be able to ping anything outside the Adelphia network while this block is in place. This will not affect customers that do not use pings. As soon as the spread of the worm is under control and our network is stabilized, we will remove this block. We regret to have to put this block into effect but it is crucial to stabilizing the network and reducing the number if ICMP requests currently flooding our system due to the virus.

Please be assured that Adelphia is taking all possible measures to prevent the virus from impacting the Power Link network.

Thank you,

Adelphia Communications

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