TechnologyEnglish • 10 months ago

Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day

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Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day

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TechnologyEnglish • 10 months ago

A home automation and tech enthusiast stumbled upon the anomaly while troubleshooting issues with his home network.

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Reality.

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day
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  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.

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