Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days - Dexerto
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The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.
  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    He found that while the coffee maker had generated 1TB of traffic, most of it stayed within his parents’ home network rather than being sent over the internet.

    “This is likely a bug with this unit,” he explained. “It did saturate my AP, that sucked.”

    In simpler terms, the coffee maker was generating so much traffic that it overwhelmed part of the home Wi-Fi setup.

    • Technus@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      My guess is it’s sending multicast messages in a hot loop trying to communicate with an app or other IoT devices on the network and freaking out because it’s not getting a response.

        • Technus@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Multicast means the AP has to deliver a copy of the packet to every other client on the network, so it’s multiplicative.

          The router doesn’t automatically know which clients are listening to a given multicast address and which aren’t, so it has to send a packet to all of them.