Is the Smart Lightbulb going to DoS the network? (Some unfortunate person traced the flood on their home network to a rogue lightbulb, as linked by the Internet of Shit Twitter account)
I have a spreadsheet for my network, and literally everything that can connect has a hard IP assigned from an IP range assigned a type (Example: 192.168.0.40-49 = LIFX), and everything that can be LAN is LAN on three routers (Two are AP only) and two switches. This is because a.) anything I didn't authorize shows up, I know on a glance on my router's device list and b.) data allocation. It's not an exact science, but I'm familiar enough with what the numbers generally are to notice a spike.
Because yeah, it's super easy to kill your wifi with All the Devices and as it turns out, routers don't really advertise they have a hard limit on how many wifi devices they'll support.
What happens when the Smart Lock manufacturer goes out of business? What happens when the internet goes out during the ice storm?
Keys. Though mine is an August; hardware is only on the inside and can be locked/unlocked manually by turning it from the inside manually--it's very big and easy--or unlock. I have wondered about the other types, though.
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I have a spreadsheet for my network, and literally everything that can connect has a hard IP assigned from an IP range assigned a type (Example: 192.168.0.40-49 = LIFX), and everything that can be LAN is LAN on three routers (Two are AP only) and two switches. This is because a.) anything I didn't authorize shows up, I know on a glance on my router's device list and b.) data allocation. It's not an exact science, but I'm familiar enough with what the numbers generally are to notice a spike.
Because yeah, it's super easy to kill your wifi with All the Devices and as it turns out, routers don't really advertise they have a hard limit on how many wifi devices they'll support.
What happens when the Smart Lock manufacturer goes out of business? What happens when the internet goes out during the ice storm?
Keys. Though mine is an August; hardware is only on the inside and can be locked/unlocked manually by turning it from the inside manually--it's very big and easy--or unlock. I have wondered about the other types, though.