{"id":159181,"date":"2025-09-25T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159181\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:37:07","slug":"the-village-where-wifi-stops-working-when-it-starts-raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159181\/","title":{"rendered":"The village where Wifi stops working when it starts raining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People living in a North Yorkshire village have claimed they are struggling to live, work and run their businesses due to the weather affecting Wifi connectivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents of Westow, between York and Malton, also said there has never been dependable phone signal in the village so they have to rely on the Wifi to make calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Carter, who works from home, said: &#8220;Whenever it rains we get drops in service, the Wifi just disappears and completely cuts out and anything we were using will just cut off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Openreach, which provides broadband to the area, apologised for &#8216;connectivity issues&#8217; and said engineers were &#8220;working hard to identify the cause&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People living in a North Yorkshire village have claimed they are struggling to live, work and run their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-159181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}