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News from the BBC of a SHINE (single high-level impulse noise)[*] that interfered with a Welsh village's internet connection on a daily basis.
The mystery of why an entire village lost its broadband every morning at 7am was solved when engineers discovered an old television was to blame.
[...] After 18 months engineers began an investigation after a cable replacement programme failed to fix the issue.
[...] Openreach engineers were baffled by the continuous problem and it wasn't until they used a monitoring device that they found the fault.
The householder would switch their TV set on at 7am every morning[sic] - and electrical interference emitted by their second-hand television was affecting the broadband signal.
The owner, who does not want to be identified, was "mortified" to find out their old TV was causing the problem, according to Openreach.
"They immediately agreed to switch it off and not use it again," said engineer Michael Jones.
While some properties in the surrounding area have Fibre to the Premises, several homes in the Aberhosan area are still limited to using copper-based ADSL connections.
[*] Broadband: Understanding REIN and SHINE.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 23 2020, @03:57PM (1 child)
Be a little more patient with the broadband supplier. After all, they did have to invent a spectrum analyzer in order to find the problem.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 23 2020, @07:45PM
Can you even imagine?
When the technician would turn on the spectrum analyzer, they would first have to watch a series of commercials and ads on top of those commercials, which the operator wouldn't be able to skip, suppress, nor fast forward before any spectrums can be analyzed. Mute would also be disabled with a mandatory volume level set to 11 on top of the already level 11 of the recorded Billy Mays style of shouting. You're also not allowed to buy the analyzer, and instead must rent it, forever, at what ever price they wish, plus taxes, plus fees, plus cramming charges. At this point you're so exhausted you forgot what you were even trying to do to begin with, so you just give up and before you know it, 18 freaking months have gone by.
Bollocks!