@ikidd@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoHomeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a daywww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up1808arrow-down1115
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minus-square@piecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-2•1 year agoWho’s to say it isn’t acting as a gateway for other smart devices that aren’t connected to the Internet? Or part of a bot net?
minus-square@Brkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoReality. https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day
minus-square@piecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year ago Another relatively innocent reason for the supposed high volume of uploads could be an error in the Asus router firmware. Note the language could be.
Who’s to say it isn’t acting as a gateway for other smart devices that aren’t connected to the Internet? Or part of a bot net?
Reality.
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day
Note the language could be.