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Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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Post by carstenhag »

iamAtom wrote: post #72
sgt wrote: post #55

It's not really an AirDrop equivalent if it requires you to be on the same network. AirDrop is really useful when you're out and about somewhere and you want to send someone a file. In those cases there's possibly not a WiFi available or in the case of visitors to your home; only you are on the network, not your friend. So I would not see the point of using this instead of AirDrop unless you have to send a file to so…

Majority of people want to use Airdrop to share file in same network in my experience.

Sometimes difficult when devica A is using a corporate wifi and device B uses a public wifi/mobile data

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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Post by capableweb »

vkoskiv wrote: post #70
capableweb wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, AirDrop requires you to be on the same network as well, as otherwise the devices don't have any way of communicating. If you're already on the same WiFi, it'll use WiFi but if not, it'll connect to each other via Bluetooth (eg, connecting to the same network [a network of two devices]), but the setup of the connection is automatic. Maybe Snapdrop can do something similar with the new Bluetooth Web APIs.

False. AirDrop does discovery via bluetooth, but then sets up an ad-hoc WiFi connection directly between devices to transmit data. No network required.

> False

> sets up an ad-hoc WiFi connection

> No network required

Guess we have different definitions of what a "network" is. I'd call that a network, of two devices.

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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Post by lozf »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #51

Is this any different to sharedrop.io, and how does it handle large files? I tried to send a zip file through sharedrop.io to my father and it just hung with no progress bar - so I had no idea if it was sending really or not. At least network manager showed only very slow upload.

From a previous discussion I noted that sharedrop.io uses Googles Firebase, and ember.js - this doesn't and has fewer dependencies.

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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Post by renw0rp »

renw0rp wrote: post #67
pacoverdi wrote: post #54

Is there an audio chat equivalent of this? When I'm playing networked games with my kids from separate rooms, we often have to resort to overkill utilities like Whatsapp / Discord / etc.

Teamspeak (or ventrilo) used to be the way to go when I was into online multiplayer games (~10 years ago). Not in browser, but low latency and extremely low resource requirements (definitely less than one browser tab; we have tried Skype back then as well, but it was using too much recorded for the computers we had back then, especially if there was more than 2 people on the call). You could host teamspeak server you…

Typo: resources

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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Post by dietr1ch »

ncfausti wrote: post #79
sgt wrote: post #55

It's not really an AirDrop equivalent if it requires you to be on the same network. AirDrop is really useful when you're out and about somewhere and you want to send someone a file. In those cases there's possibly not a WiFi available or in the case of visitors to your home; only you are on the network, not your friend. So I would not see the point of using this instead of AirDrop unless you have to send a file to so…

İ have an Android and a MBP. The number of times where İ think, "why is this so hard to get this file to that computer" is more than I'd like to admit. Cloud drives (iCloud, OneDrive, GDrive) are all too slow on bad WiFi. This should help me.

Have you tried Syncthing?

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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Post by contravariant »

pacoverdi wrote: post #54

Is there an audio chat equivalent of this? When I'm playing networked games with my kids from separate rooms, we often have to resort to overkill utilities like Whatsapp / Discord / etc.

It includes video as well but jitsi.meet works quite well. A dedicated audio chat server like Mumble/Murmur will probably beat any such solution in performance though.

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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Post by avianlyric »

capableweb wrote: post #82
vkoskiv wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

False. AirDrop does discovery via bluetooth, but then sets up an ad-hoc WiFi connection directly between devices to transmit data. No network required.

> False > sets up an ad-hoc WiFi connection > No network required Guess we have different definitions of what a "network" is. I'd call that a network, of two devices.

I think the important difference is that AirDrop doesn't require you both to start on the same network for discovery, which SnapDrop does.

Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC

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Post by [deleted] »

vkoskiv wrote: post #70
capableweb wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, AirDrop requires you to be on the same network as well, as otherwise the devices don't have any way of communicating. If you're already on the same WiFi, it'll use WiFi but if not, it'll connect to each other via Bluetooth (eg, connecting to the same network [a network of two devices]), but the setup of the connection is automatic. Maybe Snapdrop can do something similar with the new Bluetooth Web APIs.

False. AirDrop does discovery via bluetooth, but then sets up an ad-hoc WiFi connection directly between devices to transmit data. No network required.

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