My rant pertaining to my lust for the death of the PC suite presented itself with a small problem.
I want to be able to access and modify any of the data stored on my phone over a web browser. What would basically happen is you take your phone, run an application, let’s call it "Net Mode" and it turns on a mobile web server allowing real time access to your data. This application pings a gateway server to establish a solid, hopefully encrypted, IP connection, which then lets you access a website, where a user must authenticate, giving you total control of your device.
Here is my issue: What happens if the connection is on my LAN? As in I’m at home, laptop connected to my router via wifi and so is my E61. Do you really want your data bouncing from your E61 to a server in Finland back to you? Then it hit me … count the number of hops between both devices. If it only takes one hop from the IP address of my ThinkPad to the IP of my E61 then the gateway server would tell the site hosted at Nokia to use the local (192.168.1.XXX) IP addresses of my devices instead of the external (70.247.189.XXX) ones. Not only does it reduce latency but it increases throughput.
I really need a white board and a board room to clearly explain this, I know I’m going to make quite a few people raise their eyebrows trying to figure out what I’m trying to explain here.