Quartz:
…if you’ve downloaded Apple’s iOS 7 you could be using Multi-path TCP already.
Multi-path TCP allows your phone to send data by whatever way it’s connected to the internet, whether that’s Wi-Fi, 3G or ethernet. This is the first time that this new means of connecting to the internet has appeared in a commercial product.
Sounds like a battery killer for mobile devices, but gadzooks this would be a dream on a wired device!
One can already do this sort of thing in a home or office environment (and a business that needs always on connections should). It’s not done by low end gear. (I have a router waiting to be connected which will use my cable and DSL connections in this manner.)
It’s nice to see this arrive in mobile, but I want to be able to turn it off (I need and pay for only low tier data plans).
As long as it prioritises Ethernet first, then Wi-Fi, then 3G or 4G, I’m fine!
Carriers will protest to the FCC. “Restraint of trade!”
The linked article is annoyingly vague about how exactly Apple is using it. According to the researcher, “Packet traces collected on an iPad running iOS7 reveal that it uses
Multipath TCP to reach some destinations that seem to be directly
controlled by Apple.”
It sounds like Apple is carefully rolling this out, testing it in the real world with only a few things until it can be sure it doesn’t destroy battery life or overwhelm networks.
that’s because Apple is annoyingly vague about how exactly they are using it.
The selected quote does nothing to tell us what the feature is. Quoting part of the article where it mentions the simultaneous use of all of these options would have been great.
Perhaps but it might obviate the need to go to the source and read the article – something The Loop has always encouraged its readers to do.
bwahaha you expect ethernet on an iOS device??
I agree with that sentiment. However, for this article I would argue that no quote would be better than the included quote if that was your intention. The included quote only serves to confuse.
but the confusion goes away once you read the linked article, right? Then my job is done.
The quote was said absolutely nothing, which almost led me to simply move on to the next thing. I’m guessing many people did just that.
This is rather different from what you are describing.
This is an extension to TCP that requires support by the networking stack on both endpoints. It allows a socket connection to remain up when switching from one network to another.
Your gear isn’t going to do that, not on its own, not without something on the other end that is cooperating, or not without your own IP range, and ISPs that will route too and from your network range.
“almost led me to simply move on to the next thing.” if only you would do that now instead of continuing to beat this poor dead horse.
Let’s compare dead horses:
1) An avid reader of this site makes a suggestion for possibly improving the site.
2) A writer for the site spends post after post in comments telling avid readers why they are wrong.
I’m pretty sure one of us shouldn’t continue beating their dead horse but it isn’t me…
show me on this doll where the bad man said you were wrong….
Wow. And on that note I’m done with the Loop.
why not? would be handy in hotels that don’t offer wifi but have ethernet in rooms
“Can’t innovate my ass.”