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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 SomeGuy on Wednesday September 23 2020, @06:01PM (1 child)
Interesting point. For all we know it was an over 9000 inch TV, or even just an LCD/Plasma screen with a really bad power supply. Of course, it would have been informative if the TFA had given any kind of description of the TV. The entire article comes across as one of those "all old things are bad" propaganda bits.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday September 24 2020, @01:33PM
Other sources have confirmed that it was a second-hand 16" CRT; see https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=39694&page=1&cid=1055652#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] for a comment posted just before yours with further details.