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    Does live mesh improve his preformance if the computers are on same LAN?? or it works only via internet
    Monday, March 2, 2009 3:59 AM

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    Hi Filipe,

    When doing any actions between meshed devices the devices will attempt a direct connection (Peer to Peer) - when over the Internet this will usually fail and fall back on proxied communication through Microsoft's servers, but on an Intranet (LAN) this will succeed and you should see much faster sync times as the data is transferred directly between the two (or more) machines on the LAN, rather than via the internet.

    Hope that helps,

    Oren
    Monday, March 2, 2009 2:40 PM

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    Hi Filipe,

    When doing any actions between meshed devices the devices will attempt a direct connection (Peer to Peer) - when over the Internet this will usually fail and fall back on proxied communication through Microsoft's servers, but on an Intranet (LAN) this will succeed and you should see much faster sync times as the data is transferred directly between the two (or more) machines on the LAN, rather than via the internet.

    Hope that helps,

    Oren
    Monday, March 2, 2009 2:40 PM
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    The most impressive thing is, that you not even have to be logged-in to have your files synced in a local network.

    PC 1 is logged in to Live Mesh
    PC 2 is not logged in to Live Mesh

    PC1 is still syncing files from PC2.

    Very interesting.
    Monday, March 16, 2009 12:04 PM
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    We actually think that the fact the files are synchronizing when not logged in is perhaps a bug, based on a few other reports in the forum. The expected behavior is that the user needs to be logged in for files to sync both locally and to the Live Desktop. When nobody is logged in, the remote service should be available, but not sync.
    -steve
    Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator
    Monday, March 16, 2009 1:56 PM
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    Stephen,

    this might be a bug, but it's okay. It works.
    Monday, March 16, 2009 2:10 PM
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    RLinden said:

    Stephen,

    this might be a bug, but it's okay. It works.



    LOL! Yes, if that is what you want it to do, but there are scenarios where this would be undesired behavior.
    -steve
    Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator
    Monday, March 16, 2009 2:28 PM
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    Stephen,

    I don't care about Live Mesh as long as it works.

    Live Mesh is such a wonderful piece of software. There are two things that I can't live without that come from Microsoft: Outlook and Live Mesh.
    Monday, March 16, 2009 3:14 PM
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    I like the fact you do not have to log on to Live Mesh for it to sync to Live Desktop and other machines in your mesh, I hope it stays like that or gives us the option in future updates.
    Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:34 PM