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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty impressed that it was able to soak an ap.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days 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.

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