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    Pensioner wiped out village’s broadband for 18 months by turning on old TV

    This did make I larf.

    A pensioner turning on his old television each morning left 400 villagers with poor broadband for 18 months.

    Openreach engineers made repeated visits to the rural Welsh village of Aberhosan due to ongoing connectivity issues and slow speeds from 7am every day. Tests showed the network was working fine and the engineers even replaced large sections of cable that served the village. But the early morning wipeout kept happening.

    The root of the problem was only found when investigators traced a burst of electrical interference to a property in the village. The ‘mortified’ householder confirmed they switched on their old television at that time every day, sending the village’s broadband haywire. Openreach engineer Michael Jones said the mystery was solved by using a spectrum analyser to look for a phenomenon known as Shine (single high-level impulse noise).

    ‘We walked up and down the village in the torrential rain at 6am to see if we could find an ‘electrical noise’ to support our theory,’ Mr Jones said.

    ‘And at 7am, like clockwork, it happened. Our device picked up a large burst of electrical interference in the village. ‘The source of the “electrical noise” was traced to a property 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.

    ‘As you can imagine, when we pointed this out to the resident they were mortified that their old second-hand TV was the cause of an entire village’s broadband problems, and they immediately agreed to switch it off and not use it again.’ Suzanne Rutherford of Openreach said such issues are not as rare as people may think.

    ‘Anything with electric components – from outdoor lights to microwaves to CCTV cameras – can potentially have an impact on your broadband connection,’ she said. She advised people to ensure their electrical appliances are properly certified and meet British standards.
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    Unbelievable..

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    18 months. You would think someone would have worked it out within a week.


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    ^Wales.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    18 months. You would think someone would have worked it out within a week.
    Well, I think what they describe is impossible unless the whole village get their internet from a combined tv/internet cable connection (cable modem) without reverse-blocking filters in the customers home. Is Wales still in the pre-fiber dark ages?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    Well, I think what they describe is impossible unless the whole village get their internet from a combined tv/internet cable connection (cable modem) without reverse-blocking filters in the customers home. Is Wales still in the pre-fiber dark ages?
    Wimax or 4G prolly.

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    Sounds like a good way to troll the neighbours when popping out.

    How much do one of these old sets cost?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    Sounds like a good way to troll the neighbours when popping out.

    How much do one of these old sets cost?
    I'd look on Ebay Wales, there might be one going cheap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Wimax
    WiMAX is dead since a decade back..

    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    or 4G prolly
    Nah, you can not bring down someone else's 4G connection (or WiMAX connection) with a faulty tv which can not radiate far and which operates at frequencies far away from WiMAX or 4G.

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    I'm betting it's can123.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    Unbelievable..

    It's from chitty's favourite 'news' source, 'Metro'.

    So it's most likely complete bollocks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    It's from chitty's favourite 'news' source, 'Metro'.

    So it's most likely complete bollocks.
    It probably is but the torches and pitchforks are out....

    "We don't know who this person is with the TV but I'm going to find out," a woman told the newspaper.

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    You seem unclear what 'complete bollocks' entails.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    can123
    He had a multi-nick didn't he?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    You seem unclear what 'complete bollocks' entails.
    That won't stop a baying mob.


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