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communication:bandwidth_conservation [2020/05/21 12:16] frater_secessus [video frugality] |
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====== Bandwidth conservation ====== | ====== Bandwidth conservation ====== | ||
+ | Similar to dealing with [[water: | ||
- | As with drinking water, power, food, and waste tanks, ' | + | Here are the most common factors: |
- | * cost - on metered or capped plans going over can be expensive | + | * Cost - on metered or capped plans going over can be expensive |
- | * availability | + | * Availability |
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+ | ===== Conserving Mobile Data ===== | ||
+ | **What takes up a lot of bandwidth? | ||
+ | tl-dr: **Video.** Anything to do with video consumes // | ||
+ | If you can reduce or eliminate any kind of video data usage, you've made the problem of data vastly smaller already. | ||
- | ===== conserving mobile data ===== | + | Professional-quality photo uploading can also take a lot of bandwidth, but it's still nowhere in the same range as video. |
+ | **What DOESN' | ||
- | ==== navigation frugality ==== | + | tl-dr: |
- | There are **offline navigation apps** like [[https://play.google.com/ | + | |
+ | ==== General tips for reducing data usage ==== | ||
+ | (Aside from avoiding video) | ||
- | **Google maps will let you download certain map tiles** for offline use. This would work best if you are in the same areas but would be less useful while traveling. | + | |
- | + | * Mobile web browsers and apps are generally formatted and designed to be more efficient about data usage, and most web sites will have mobile-optimized versions that are more lightweight. | |
- | + | * You can sometimes fake this on some desktop web browsers by using extensions to trick them into fetching the mobile versions of web pages, or by doing it manually with specific web addresses (for example, https:// | |
- | + | * You may want to hack that behavior by sending a false [[https:// | |
- | ==== web frugality ==== | + | * Turn off data usage when not needed |
- | **Quick Answer**: | + | * Modern devices are very " |
+ | * When going to bed or when you know you're not using the device for a while, turn off just the data connection. | ||
+ | * This means that you may not get notified immediately when someone posts a new cat picture, however SMS and phone calls will still come through (as those operate on a push notification from the cellular network, rather than a pull from the phone) | ||
+ | * Many cell phones will have options for "Low Data Mode", which will attempt to limit or stop this background behavior as well. | ||
+ | * Offline Navigation | ||
+ | * There are **offline navigation apps** like [[https:// | ||
+ | | ||
+ | * Use add blockers | ||
+ | * The [[https:// | ||
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You can try to force the use of a mobile site even if you are on a computer. Mobile sites tend to be cleaner, simpler, and generally less gunked up with bandwith hogging multimedia. | You can try to force the use of a mobile site even if you are on a computer. Mobile sites tend to be cleaner, simpler, and generally less gunked up with bandwith hogging multimedia. | ||
- | The traditional way mobile sites were/are denoted was with the prefix " | + | The traditional way mobile sites were/are denoted was with the prefix " |
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==== video frugality ==== | ==== video frugality ==== | ||
- | **Streaming is evil** when bandwidth is limited. Some networking gear is socket-limited; | + | **Streaming is evil** when bandwidth is limited. Some networking gear is socket-limited; |
If you can, download the media during off-hours; | If you can, download the media during off-hours; | ||
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+ | Some streaming services allow you to download for offline consumption. | ||
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=== YouTube frugality === | === YouTube frugality === |