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The mystery of the internet that failed every day at seven in the morning in an entire town in Wales was solved after 18 months of investigation.
For 18 months, at 7 a.m., houses in the village of Aberhosan, in Powys, Wales, were without Internet. Openreach, the division of the British telecommunications company BT responsible for network structures, has been busy looking for solutions, including changing the cable that provided the signal to the village.
After a year and a half searching for solutions to this daily break, with British punctuality, the engineers set foot on the road and walked around town with a spectrum analysis monitor, looking for “electrical noise” to help identify the source of the evil. . .
And that was how, when they passed a house, they discovered the origin of the collapse of the Internet in the town: a second-hand television. Whenever it is turned on, the device emits a high-level noise pulse (SHINE), which causes electrical interference to other devices.
“At seven in the morning, a resident turned on the old television, which when it started it lowered the bandwidth of the whole town,” explained Openreach engineer Michael Jones, quoted by the BBC television network.
Suzanne Rutherford, Openreach’s chief engineer in Wales, explains that any appliance with electrical components, from outdoor lights to microwaves, can have an impact on broadband networks.
“We advise people to check that the electrical appliances they have at home are certified,” Suzanne Rutherford said. A message well received by owners of problematic televisions.
“Mortified” for causing so much trouble for the people, the couple, who did not want to be identified, already touched the television in question and promised not to turn it on again. And the broadband signal remains stable, with no interruptions since the mystery was solved.
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