Admin phantom Posted September 22, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 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. An unnamed householder in Aberhosan, Powys, was unaware the old set would emit a signal which would interfere with the entire village's broadband. After 18 months engineers began an investigation after a cable replacement programme failed to fix the issue. The embarrassed householder promised not to use the television again. The village now has a stable broadband signal. 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 - 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. Engineers walked around the village with a monitor called a spectrum analyser to try to find any "electrical noise" to help pinpoint the problem. "At 7am, like clockwork, it happened," said Mr Jones. "Our device picked up a large burst of electrical interference in the village. "It turned out that at 7am every morning the occupant would switch on their old TV which would, in turn, knock out broadband for the entire village." The TV was found to be emitting a single high-level impulse noise (SHINE), which causes electrical interference in other devices. Mr Jones said the problem has not returned since the fault was identified. TAKEN FROM: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54239180 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 Openreach. The company that took nearly 3 years to decide they should start looking at installing fibre broadband into a new build estate, which coincidentally is about 3 years old. Along come another company, install the Infastructure, and get most of the estate on board within a week of it going live. As strange as the TV story is, I'm less surprised that it turns out it took them so long to find what the fault was.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted September 23, 2020 Report Share Posted September 23, 2020 I thought this thread was going to be about a sag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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