RockBottom@feddit.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoHomeowner Baffled After Washing Machine Uses 3.6GB of Internet Data a Daywww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1334arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1328arrow-down1external-linkHomeowner Baffled After Washing Machine Uses 3.6GB of Internet Data a Daywww.newsweek.comRockBottom@feddit.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square91fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRoidingOldMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoWhat’s to even track that could use that much data? Audio alone seems like it would be less data.
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 month agoYeah, that seems like a bug. Even if it was streaming every sensor datapoint it had, it probably wouldn’t be that much.
minus-squareRoidingOldMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoOr an update failing and re-trying over and over? Just a guess.
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoIt was an error with his router’s logging; something else was being misattributed to the washing machine
What’s to even track that could use that much data? Audio alone seems like it would be less data.
Yeah, that seems like a bug. Even if it was streaming every sensor datapoint it had, it probably wouldn’t be that much.
Or an update failing and re-trying over and over? Just a guess.
It was an error with his router’s logging; something else was being misattributed to the washing machine