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| G7PSK:
This TV must have been putting out a hell of a lot of RF interference. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54239180?fbclid=IwAR06I9KBXZOCRoUAfjGCqha9OZeoTjl9JIo0lSjz0Y7pFKBhWcBOFNz2-mo |
| Electro Fan:
under 4 Mbps is called a Not Spot “Its low internet speed of 4Mbps meant it was a proper "not spot" where young people could not watch YouTube, the local pub struggled to take card payments and downloading a film was nearly impossible.” |
| ChristofferB:
Amazing story. Bizarre how little radiated power is needed for a LOT of interference - on a much lower band too. |
| Cerebus:
Version of this story in the Register here and original Openreach press release here. TL;DR: "Openreach engineering, after taking over 18 months and using both hands, finally manage to find their own arse.". Really, what muppets put out a press release to advertise the fact that it took them more than 18 months to recognise, diagnose and track down a simple EMI problem in a tiny village? Here's the massive area that they had to roam to find this fault, and it took over 18 months: |
| T3sl4co1l:
Not to mention inability of the regulatory body (Post, is it?) to investigate. Also surprising no amateurs complained. Though maybe there aren't any in such a small region, and the interference was local enough not to disturb anyone else. I wonder what the noise was. High voltage arcing? Must've been in a pretty unlikely location, where it was able to conduct/radiate. Or perhaps it was a slightly newer TV, and its EMI filter went tits-up, and maybe failed isolation too, thus transmitting all the switching noise. Wouldn't seem likely that such a malfunction would still be useful though: could it even receive cable anymore? Also mysterious that the telecom hardware wasn't able to deal with it. Surely they test their shite to 10V/m and such? Maybe they don't use class A criteria (no dropout of service) during such tests. Maybe it was installed wrong (broken shield somewhere?). Likely, as with any good disaster, there are multiple causes of failure... Tim |
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