Scott,
Yes I posted a similar question: http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/thread/d14cbee8-863d-4aa0-8101-3767b492db59. Here's what Richard Chung said:
Mesh throttles its uploads so as to no overwhelm your connection. Also, expected time to upload 830MB of data can vary depending on what else is going on in the system at the same time (be it on your machine or in the Mesh). The 214MB number is slightly misleading as it only tells you how much this endpoint thinks it has to upload, capped at some number of files at any instant in time--so you may see it fluctuate over time. There's no way to tell how far into an upload you're in today. We're going to try to provide more useful information in the future, as well as allow users more control over the process.
So the upload number is basically useless, almost random numbers when it comes to figuring out how far along you are. If you are using the computer, then Live Mesh will throttle back, slowing things down (if I understand correctly), or if for example your Windows Home Server or a tune-up script fires off.
My initial reaction is that this whole scenario needs work. The idea that large files will only be available at some unforseen point in the future (but guaranteed a long way off), just isn't going to cut it. Now files can travel across the internet only so fast, not much to be done there, but better reporting, even "are you sure you want to do this?" warnings are, I think, necessary.
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