<story><title>Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop</title><url>https://www.sharedrop.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiller1</author><text>All of these &amp;quot;alternatives to airdop&amp;quot; don&amp;#x27;t seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection.  Airdrop isn&amp;#x27;t just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren&amp;#x27;t connected to an existing network of that speed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spieglt</author><text>Mine does! &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spieglt&amp;#x2F;flyingcarpet&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spieglt&amp;#x2F;flyingcarpet&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop</title><url>https://www.sharedrop.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiller1</author><text>All of these &amp;quot;alternatives to airdop&amp;quot; don&amp;#x27;t seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection.  Airdrop isn&amp;#x27;t just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren&amp;#x27;t connected to an existing network of that speed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j1elo</author><text>Apple usually does excellent integrations between their devices. But I haven&amp;#x27;t used AirDrop so I&amp;#x27;m not familiar with how it works: in order to create an ad-hoc wireless connection, if the devices were already connected to some wifi access point, are they temporarily disconnected for the duration of the ad-hoc connection?&lt;p&gt;If not, I&amp;#x27;d guess that Apple devices maybe come with 2 WiFi adapters inside?</text></comment>