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Old TV Caused Village Broadband Outages for 18 Months

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 23 2020, @03:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the try-rfc-2549-instead dept.

kazzie writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday September 23 2020, @04:01PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 23 2020, @04:01PM (#1055617) Journal

    Number 6 could complain. Number 2 could strategically insert a filter in the offending customer's broadband line to block the offending noise from escaping back out to the entire Village. Number 1 would investigate whether the CRT was part of some kind of escape attempt.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by pipedwho on Wednesday September 23 2020, @10:17PM (2 children)

    by pipedwho (2032) on Wednesday September 23 2020, @10:17PM (#1055848)

    I am not a number, I am a free man!

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      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @02:43AM (#1055960)

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @12:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2020, @12:42PM (#1056110)

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