This is an old article and iirc this was a reporting issue with their router. The wash machine was not using that much data.
Who’s to say it isn’t acting as a gateway for other smart devices that aren’t connected to the Internet? Or part of a bot net?
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.
Yeah, that’s a much simpler explanation. The data any given smart device sends (unless it’s streaming content) should be on the order of a few megabytes per day, if that. All it would need is:
- outgoing notifications
- incoming requests
- update checks
A few million bytes per day is still egregious.
Depends on what it’s sending. Something like a washing machine would only need a few dozen kb/day, but something like a temperature sensor could send MBs, depending on update freq.
Regardless, I want to fully control any smart device in my home, which is why I tend to not buy smart stuff.
