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.
So, in those 18 months did the village kids’ grades improve?
“the £30 16” Bush set”
Bush’s fault.
Imagine the damage watching “The View” would have done.
Yes, but only for an hour a day...
Was that TV made in Russia?
“Sounds like crappy service is the norm and that they are incompetent to identify the problem.”
Welcome to ol blighty.
Some cheap Chinese TV that doesn’t pass emission standards, probably.
Comcast would never have figured it out, but they would keep on sending people to check @ so many dollars a visit.
Sounds like crappy service is the norm and that they are incompetent to identify the problem.
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Yep. The real story is how bad the provider is.
That’s my take also. One TV kills broadband is crappy service and it took them over a year to figure it out and the service is still not good.
This may also explain why the elderly couple have five heads between them now.
They paid £30 three years ago. So it probably wasn’t a CRT (those are generally larger, and free). The article cites the tech describing single high-level impulse noise (SHINE) as if this were a “thing”. I cannot find that acronym anywhere except in links to this story (on various sources).
People have known forever that leaf blowers, generators, microwaves, powertools, etc. cause RF interference. If a stupid little LCD screen can do that, then the company should move its repeating apparatus (I assume it is not hardwired), othewise the next knock on the door might come because grandma is running the electric mixer to make cake batter. Sheesh!
I experience WiFi drops when my microwave is being used. I’ve tried different routers and microwaves but bandwidth goes to almost zero when the microwave is on and immediately comes back when it stops - like clockwork.
I asked the sales guy at ABC Warehouse if they had a “wifi safe microwave” - should’ve seen the look I got!
Plug the microwave through a protected power strip. That might isolate it. Or build a Faraday cage. LOL.
>>>I cannot find that acronym anywhere except in links to this story
I find your search skills, lacking :)
https://support.zen.co.uk/kb/Knowledgebase/Broadband-Understanding-REIN-and-SHINE
http://www.equicom.hu/wp-content/uploads/EXFO_anote303_Capturing-and-Analyzing-Impulse-Noise_en.pdf
https://kitz.co.uk/adsl/rein.htm
Your links are all to the UK and one in Canada. I guess my searches are U.S. centric!
The microwave oven leaks on the 2.4GHz frequency, which is probably the same frequency of your Wi-Fi wAP and devices. If you could use the 5GHz spectrum your problem with the microwave interference would go away.
dvwjr
Ferrite bead on the legs of the power feed?
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