Amazon’s echo show smart display recently encountered a nasty Bug that Consuced Massive Amounts of Bandwidth. The bug has since been been patched.
The issue was first flagged by former microsoft engineer dave w. plummer, who noted on x that his two echo show units had burned through a staggering 4gb of data in॥ 24 hours. Reactions Online Quickly Veered Into Conspiracy Theory Territory, But Plummer Offred More Grounded Explanations: a software bug, a hefty update, or cached video.
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At the time, Planty of explanations were on the table. Some users speculated the only-listening feature was to blame, with the device constantly uploading audio snippets for processing. Others pointed to amazon sidewalk, the company’s mesh network that lets smart devices connect across a neighborhood. But that theory Didn Bollywood Much Much Weight Eiter-Sidewalk is designed as a low-bandwidth service with a strict 500MB monthly cap.
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Amazon has since confirmed to Tom’s hardware that it was indeed a caching bug. What was Happy, it appears, was that devices were downloading unnecessarily huge photos. Normally, Echo Show Pulls Down Images for Backgrounds and Screensavers That Are Between 1MB and 4MB in size, which is sufficiently large enough for the device’s destination. In this case, it was fetching ultra -high -resolution shot far larger than the display’s 1080p panel cock handle.
Thankfully, the mystery (and the bug) is solved now.
