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    I just used Mesh only for one week, It's awesome.

    I synchronized my documents (3G and over 2000 files) in two computers located in my home via Mesh, It took 1 day to uploading and downloading. (ADSL2+)

    And I find a big problem the two computers are keeping synchronizing. It makes my internet so slowly, even I can't browse webs.

    I use Resource Monitor to watch the internet, the MOE is keeping sending data .........

    I am wondering do you guys have the same problem?

    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:02 PM

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    A problem with Mesh is that it uses un-throttled upload. This means that the upload speed on most home connections is used to capacity.

    This causes issues with speed, and even with basic Internet browsing. While web browsing and such is considered a 'downloading' like activity, the requests have to be sent upstream. This means it's the request to the website that is causing Internet browsing to be 'slow'.

    The computers will have to upload 3GB at minimum, and that wont take 5 minutes. Try leave the computers on overnight to finish their synchronization with the cloud. Otherwise, if the files arn't important on the cloud, remove the cloud/Live Desktop aspect of the synchronization -- and reduce it to just a peer to peer sync. Peer to peer sync does not require a large upload speed, as it's sent over the local network (assuming the computers are on the same network ;)).

    ShadowXVII | http://www.shadowsplace.net
    Friday, April 16, 2010 2:50 AM

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    If the files you are synchronizing are being changed on one PC or any other PC in your Mesh, it will indeed continue to send and receive data.

    However, it should not slow your Internet connection. There have been some other reports of the traffic impacting the network connection and we've not seen any solution posted or a root cause. It should be able to be minimized if you don't continually have changes in the folders being snchronized.

    What types of files exist in your documents? Are we talking music files, for example, where a media program may be updating metadata each time it opens and scans the "library" of files?

    -steve

    ~ Microsoft MVP Windows Live ~ Windows Live OneCare| Live Mesh|MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator ~
    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:26 PM
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    Thanks Stephen,

     

    *.pdf (most), *.jpg, *.docx are in my documents. 

     

    I don't understand how MESH synchronize documentations, compare the date or date or just opened

    Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:14 AM
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    Changes are detected at the file "hash" level, whatever that means. :-) A "table" is maintained by Live Mesh to identify the "state" of each and every file in the Meshed folder. Changes made on any machine cause the file to sync to all other devices/locations. The change can be a new time stamp or even just a data change within the file.

    -steve

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    Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:01 PM
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    A problem with Mesh is that it uses un-throttled upload. This means that the upload speed on most home connections is used to capacity.

    This causes issues with speed, and even with basic Internet browsing. While web browsing and such is considered a 'downloading' like activity, the requests have to be sent upstream. This means it's the request to the website that is causing Internet browsing to be 'slow'.

    The computers will have to upload 3GB at minimum, and that wont take 5 minutes. Try leave the computers on overnight to finish their synchronization with the cloud. Otherwise, if the files arn't important on the cloud, remove the cloud/Live Desktop aspect of the synchronization -- and reduce it to just a peer to peer sync. Peer to peer sync does not require a large upload speed, as it's sent over the local network (assuming the computers are on the same network ;)).

    ShadowXVII | http://www.shadowsplace.net
    Friday, April 16, 2010 2:50 AM
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    Turning off indexing for those locations may help.
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    Saturday, April 17, 2010 6:04 PM