A communication apparatus for performing data communication with terminal devices, includes unit acquiring, from the terminal devices, connection information items corresponding to the terminal devices, unit storing the connection information items, unit, when transmitting data to the terminal devices, selecting one of a first scheme and a second scheme referring to the stored connection information items, the first scheme causing the data to be unicasted to the terminal devices, the second scheme causing the data to be unicasted to one terminal device of the terminal devices and then to be multicasted from the one terminal device to the terminal devices other than the one terminal device, and unit transmitting, to the one terminal device, request information requesting the one terminal device to perform processing of data using the second scheme, and also transmitting the data to the one terminal device, when the selection unit selects the second scheme.