Google has confirmed an issue with its premium Home Max smart speaker. The problem in question, affected users say, causes WiFi networks to be killed, which means the router/modem requires a hard restart to bring the network up again.
Going by reports on the official Google forum, most users who are affected by the issue are using a TP-Link Archer C7 router.
One user even got a reply from TP-Link engineers over the issue, indicating the root of the problem could be MDNS multicast discovery packets that are sent to keep a live connection. Apparently, Home Max is overloading the…