The old telly that brought down a Welsh village's broadband
by Steven Morris from on (#58EX1)
For months the broadband in the whole village failed due to electrical noise' from one resident's television
For 18 months, at precisely 7am every day, the broadband signal in the tiny Welsh village of Aberhosan simply vanished.
Engineers were sent to the remote settlement in mid Wales, which has a population of just 400, to investigate the problem. They spent days testing connections and replacing cables until they finally got to the root of the problem - one villager's old telly.
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