A smart coffee maker generated 1TB of network traffic in 10 days
A small, real example of how one misbehaving smart device can swamp a home network.
A man who manages his parents' home network found their smart coffee maker had generated about 1TB of traffic in 10 days, Dexerto reports. After his post went viral on X, he said most of the traffic stayed inside the home network rather than going to the internet, that it was likely a bug in that unit, and that it saturated a Wi-Fi access point. He decided the device wasn't worth keeping connected.
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Internet of things
After exploring Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days, for the bigger category, see Internet of things.
Physical objects with sensors and software that exchange data over networks. Wikipedia notes most don't need the public internet; they just need to be on a network.
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