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Homeowner Baffled After Washing Machine Uses 3.6GB of Internet Data a Day (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

And in a followup post, he explained it was a logging misconfiguration in his router

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 2 points 23 minutes ago

Misunderstanding aside, thanks for the link!

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So close.

What I was referencing in inaccuracy of the router is the attribution of 622 bytes to Apple iMessage.

[–] lemjukes@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 hours ago

still not everything.

There was gigabytes of data being uploaded from the IP address of the >washer. I have segregated this device to its own network and logging data >usage.

I have yet to hear from LG on how to reset/update the firmware or how to >fix the rogue washing machine.