Smart Speakers and Devices Secretly Drain Home Wi-Fi Data

The Google Home Speaker Has Been Secretly Eating My Wi-Fi Data. If you had to estimate how much data your smart speaker was using over the course of a couple of weeks, would you guess 3 terabytes? That's what one Google Home Speaker user discovered when he checked his home Wi-Fi's usage, according to Reddit posts reported on by 9to5Google . The Google Gemini–powered smart speakers have apparently been downloading huge amounts of data to the device over the past two weeks, which could put a serious damper on your Wi-Fi network. While it isn't happening to everyone, after checking my own home internet usage, I found out that I have been experiencing the sam