Question on Streaming Video Through Android Phone on Home Network

Perhaps switch off one at the time and see what option stops the streaming.

If you are streaming through wifi there is no data charge....Your phone should be connected to the internet through your cable via wifi.....

If you see the WiFi icon at the top, that means all data is coming in through your WiFi connection. If you want to be sure, you can go into settings and disable carrier network data temporarily. But again if the WiFi icon is showing, it's Wifi being used.

Thanks guys, all good suggestions, just ran the experiment. While I was looking at a simple video, I shut down the router. The video never stopped, but the little network symbol disappeared and was replaced by the little 4G symbol. Then it came back when the router was powered back up, and the 4G symbol disappeared. It looks like whenever I come in the house and the phone finds the network, everything - internet, calls, text messages - goes though the network connection. I never knew that. Appreciate the help.

jhammond

There is also a settings icon on the Android menu that has option to check Mobile network. If you check this, the phone will always stream data through an available wireless network. You want to check it.

Thanks, I couldn't find a setting that looked like that. But I did find Wi-Fi sleep policy under the Advanced settings of Wi-Fi Settings, which said "Specify when to switch from Wi-Fi to mobile data." "Never" was checked. Seems like that would keep me on the home network whenever I am in range, i.e. in the house.

jhammond

Being the paranoid person I am, I always put the phone/tablet in airplane mode then turn on Wifi for streaming videos.