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CloudWatcher

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3. UK has equivalent regulations
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 02:45 PM
Sep 2020

The UK has rules like that as well. That old TV set was not behaving within spec. I suspect it was seriously in danger of catching fire

I'm guessing the ISP didn't shield their high-speed link to the backbone, and the TV was close enough to lower the speed of their main link. The whole point of the original Internet was multiple links between the routers so a single bad connection wouldn't trigger an outage. But ISP's have been cutting costs and don't really care about outages.

So the broken TV is a cute story, but the scandal is that the village's ISP cut so many corners that they finally got caught. And then didn't have the knowledge or equipment to even figure it out for 18 months.

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