In reply to a post by Mendip:

So the moral of this story? To find interference often requires time, a SW radio and as Zarjaz says 'leg work' (and, perhaps, a six pack of beer....:-))

Nope you just need two SDR's with rotating directional antennas and GNSS receivers Admittedly that would put the cost up a bit. Probably still less than sending a team out to walk about looking for it though.

The only leg work needed is for final pinpointing of the dodgy equipment.

In reply to a post by jabuzzard:

In reply to a post by Mendip:

So the moral of this story? To find interference often requires time, a SW radio and as Zarjaz says 'leg work' (and, perhaps, a six pack of beer....:-))

Nope you just need two SDR's with rotating directional antennas and GNSS receivers Admittedly that would put the cost up a bit. Probably still less than sending a team out to walk about looking for it though.

The only leg work needed is for final pinpointing of the dodgy equipment.

(my bold) but that’s the point .... or rather isn’t. Your half arsed guess finds an area, maybe even a building ..... what do you do then, turn the buildings power off, telling the the owner they must vacate ? Since Openreach have no authority, can only advise ... so, with diligence, you find the exact culprit, tell/show the owner the issue and ask that they don’t use/replace. And hope they heed your advice.

In the good old days the Radiocommunications Agency’s RIS Team (and the Post Office/BT equivalents that predated them) would have been asked to have a look see and had the hardware & skills to track this down very quickly. Ofcom may not be so willing to help, but they do still have some form of interference tracing capability. Of course this assumes that someone had asked the question about whether the interferer being an RF source.

Team, what team ?

it was by Openreach's own admission a last throw of the dice.

Where did it say that ?

In reply to a post by jabuzzard:

How was the person to know that they where doing anything wrong? How do you know that there is no faulty equipment in your house that is not impacting broadband performance? I am sure you would be similarly mortified if an apparently perfectly good appliance was causing your neighbourhood such problems.

My post was written light hearted with a very big smiley grin at the end, Seems it went straight over you're head enough for you to get you're panties tangled.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Team, what team ?

it was by Openreach's own admission a last throw of the dice.

Where did it say that ?

On the ISPreview web site there is a quote from a "Michael Jones, Openreach Engineer " which says

As a final resort we decided to bring in a crack squad of engineers from the Chief Engineers Office who where based in other parts of the UK to investigate

So clearly and expensive last throw of the dice.

Ah, so I am supposed to sense which other web sites you have read the same story on ..... I am clearly at fault, I do apologise.