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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: 3, Interesting) by Revek on Thursday September 24 2020, @01:46AM
We never took more than a week to find bad equipment. We would watch the spectrum and when noise jumped in we had guys go out and start pulling pads until we isolated it. If they wouldn't let inspect it we cut their drop loose. We had one guy with a hot tub and at four o'clock every day our node would go off. When we figured out where it was he wouldn't let us look. We cut his drop loose and the next day he found it in his heart to let us inspect his house wiring. As usual we found twist on rg59 connectors and shitty wal mart coax.
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