RockBottom@feddit.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days 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 · 14 days agomessage-square91fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRoidingOldMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 days 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-down1·14 days 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-up9·14 days agoOr an update failing and re-trying over and over? Just a guess.
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·14 days 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