Posted on 09/22/2020 2:21:37 PM PDT by packrat35
A RETIRED couple wiped out an entire village's internet every day for 18 months by turning on their second-hand TV to watch Piers Morgan.
Alun and Elaine Rees snapped up the £30 16" Bush set three years ago on Facebook so their grandchildren could watch DVD films.
But the retired couple had no idea the flatscreen TV was cutting the broadband signal for everybody in the tiny village of Aberhosan, Powys, Mid Wales.
Puzzled locals in the 400-strong village spent a year-and-a-half complaining to Openreach about the dreadful signal which cut out like clockwork every day.
Engineers replaced large sections of cable serving the village, but the problem continued.
Further investigations revealed a burst of electrical interference in Aberhosan at 7am each day, which was eventually traced to Alun and Elaine's home.
The engineers then realised the pensioners' ancient TV was emitting a single high-level impulse noise (SHINE) - which causes electrical interference in other devices.
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