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    I've setup LiveMesh on both my home PC and my laptop (both running Vista Ultimate 64). I really like the software, but I today at work my HP iPAQ 910c (which I use for tethered internet via PDANet 2.0) would report battery heat warnings after about 2 hours of connection... which has never happened before. After the third time this occurred, I loaded up Spb Wireless Monitor, which was reporting constant data traffic.

    I shut down each internet application on my laptop one at a time to isolate where the traffic was coming from, and narrowed it down to LiveMesh. So I figured I's simply sign-out of LiveMesh over the course of the day, and sign-in before leaving work to sync files up with the cloud. But I've noticed that even when signed out of LiveMesh, it still generates constants ~400kbit/s traffic. Same if I choose "Work Offline". The only time it stops is when I exit LiveMesh completely.

    This seems like a bug to me, but I figured I'd post and find out what's going on. With constant traffic like this I'd saturate my cellphone data plan in about 8 days. Any help would be appreciated.
    Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:45 PM

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    I suggest submitting a bug report if "work offline" does not actually result in Live Mesh ceasing all communication.
     

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    I agree that it should be truly offline when that is selected. When Live Mesh, the service on the PC, starts, even before you log in, it communcaites with the environment so that you can access the PC remotely. It should not be synchronizing at that point - it does that after you log in. And, when you log out, there will still be occasional traffic as the client updates its status to the cloud, but it should not do so, in my opinion, if you select "work offline."

    -steve

    Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator
    Thursday, September 3, 2009 12:15 PM
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    I suggest submitting a bug report if "work offline" does not actually result in Live Mesh ceasing all communication.
     

    How to Submit Bugs and Live Mesh Logs

    I agree that it should be truly offline when that is selected. When Live Mesh, the service on the PC, starts, even before you log in, it communcaites with the environment so that you can access the PC remotely. It should not be synchronizing at that point - it does that after you log in. And, when you log out, there will still be occasional traffic as the client updates its status to the cloud, but it should not do so, in my opinion, if you select "work offline."

    -steve

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    Thursday, September 3, 2009 12:15 PM
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    Will do. Thanks for the info.

    When I got home last night, I turned on my laptop on my local WiFi, and let it fully synchronize. There was about 100 MB of transfer, which may have been from the fact that I added several LiveMesh folders to sync with the laptop. After that, I watched the laptop's network usage, and it was completely normal. Same thing back at work today.

    I have a feeling the data transfer was because I had those folder syncs in the queue, but I can't see why it would've been attempting to transfer them while in offline mode or logged out. I'm slightly concerned in the case of being signed-out, as it shouldn't be able to sync in that case, since the session isn't authorized.
    Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:10 PM
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    There have been reports that synchronizing continues if you do the following:
    Boot the PC
    Log into Windows
    Live Mesh starts and you sign in.
    Log out of Windows.

    In theory, when you log out of Windows, all running programs should stop and log you out. Live Mesh, the service, will still run and identify your machine as available for remote access, but I'd expect all other traffic to cease. If you also selected Work Offline, I'd expect the machine to be unavailable until you restarted the machine and the service came back up - maybe.

    It seems like work offline does not really mean work offline and that, to me, is a bug. ;-)
    -steve
    Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator
    Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:27 PM
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