The source of our WiFi is increasingly being capped as well so I'm not so sure this is even an acceptable approach. Just because I have WiFi single doesn't meet I have an unlimited amount of bandwidth to load your crappy video.

Detecting WiFi is a clever hack that works for right now, but for those using cell wifi routers, cell hot spots or with crappy ISPs that have a low cap it won't matter.

Well, yeah. The article says "so as to not use the users' data plans", so this seems like it's a mobile feature.

It's an API available via the Android and iOS SDKs, respectively.

How to detect the network connection type on Android: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2802472/detect-network-co...

How to detect the network connection type on iOS: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7938650/ios-detect-3g-or-...