An old TV caused internet outages for an entire British village… for 18 months

Like clockwork, each morning at 7AM the entire town of Aberhosan in Wales would lose its broadband connection. The mystery plagued the village for 18 months — and nobody knew why. Until now. The culprit? An old television set. After numerous cable replacements failed to fix the the issue, an investigation by Openreach technicians discovered that an unnamed Aberhosan resident was unaware their TV would emit a signal that would interfere with the entire village’s broadband infrastructure, BBC reports. [Read more: Are EVs too expensive? Here are 5 common myths, debunked] Baffled by the continuous lapses in connectivity, the technicians used a monitoring…

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