Everyone in my family at home, i.e. my mom-dad and myself use a android phone and share the wifi connection.
Infact when at home, my parents make the most of the internet , kind of their time pass post retirement . Whatsapping and Youtubing are among the two popular apps used. Inevitably everyone in the family is in some common group like Relatives or Friends. And in these groups, all of us get the same video/ multimedia messages, which infact amount to quite some bit.
The other aspect,is watching video lectures. Generally I watch them online. And most of the time the whole lecture/video buffers while I might finished watching only 20% of it. Next time when I again continue, again the same scenario happens.
Similarly when Mom watches stitching tutorials, she refers to them 2-3 times(maybe on different days) or more on the youtube app and everytime it buffers from start. The final aspect is sharing of data with family members. When I forward some video to the parents via Whatsapp, inspite of all of us being on the same Wifi network, data downloads on their mobiles via the whatsapp server consuming b/w whereas it is not required at all.
Infact when at home, my parents make the most of the internet , kind of their time pass post retirement . Whatsapping and Youtubing are among the two popular apps used. Inevitably everyone in the family is in some common group like Relatives or Friends. And in these groups, all of us get the same video/ multimedia messages, which infact amount to quite some bit.
The other aspect,is watching video lectures. Generally I watch them online. And most of the time the whole lecture/video buffers while I might finished watching only 20% of it. Next time when I again continue, again the same scenario happens.
Similarly when Mom watches stitching tutorials, she refers to them 2-3 times(maybe on different days) or more on the youtube app and everytime it buffers from start. The final aspect is sharing of data with family members. When I forward some video to the parents via Whatsapp, inspite of all of us being on the same Wifi network, data downloads on their mobiles via the whatsapp server consuming b/w whereas it is not required at all.
Well, in both these situations I see data is same data is being downloaded multiple times and is resulting in unecessary b/w consumption. Can something better be done? The wifi router which does the data routing, can't it be smart enough and have some kind of a local caching storage which can help with the issue of rebuffering of video .When same data is received by three of us, can't it just download a single copy and transfer to us rather than downloading 3 copies individually?
Can the apps on the mobile or the mobile OS handling the transfer become smarter to router using the wifi/bluetooth instead via the internet ?
Well, I can see there is a lot of redundancy and scope of improvement here and I hope the app developers as well as the wifi router companies too might be noticing the same. I am hoping for some cool solutions for these in the near future. Go technology :) !
Can the apps on the mobile or the mobile OS handling the transfer become smarter to router using the wifi/bluetooth instead via the internet ?
Well, I can see there is a lot of redundancy and scope of improvement here and I hope the app developers as well as the wifi router companies too might be noticing the same. I am hoping for some cool solutions for these in the near future. Go technology :) !