Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic

• Treczoks@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not everybody has the money for an extra router.

  No need for an extra router. I just put those device into the "has no internet access" group. It is one of those "Parental Control" things. Every device inside the net can see and talk to it, but itself cannot talk to anything outside.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is understandable… To me, anyway. Until the router needs to be reset, or something else happens to it.

    Come to think of it, I’m not sure if my router hardware actually supports this possibility. I’ve got a PiHole, but I’m also not the average person I play telephone tech support for.

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    • Treczoks@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Until the router needs to be reset, or something else happens to it.

      That's what "configuration backups" are for. You've got some, don't you?

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      • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Who, me? I never thought about it before because I like to live dangerously

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