ikidd@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a daywww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up1823 cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1823external-linkHomeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a daywww.newsweek.comikidd@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前message-square196fedilink cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前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?
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 年前Reality. https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 年前 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.