Offline Downloading in China
Zhenhua Li, Christo Wilson, Tianyin Xu, Yao Liu, Lu Zhen, Yinlong Wang · 2015
Although Internet access has become more ubiquitous in recent years, most users in China still suffer from low-quality connections, especially when downloading large files. To address this issue, hundreds of millions of China's users have resorted to technologies that allow for ``offline downloading'', where a proxy is employed to pre-download the user's requested file and then deliver the file at her convenience.