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It would be incredibly interesting if your dropbox machines all ran a bitorrent client that auto shared the syncing between them all. With logic to determine w
by phlux 16y ago
It would be incredibly interesting if your dropbox machines all ran a bitorrent client that auto shared the syncing between them all.
With logic to determine which machines are closest (in bandwidth)
So that if I have my 5+ machines at home (desktops, laptops and phones, which all have the client on them) - they all see that they are on the same subnet and sync very fast between each other.
Then update the cloud at the same time - in the same fashion... chop all the changes up amongst the machines. (sure, I still have a single pipe via my cable modem - but this would be helpful when I am on work lan too...)
EDIT: it would be great to see an added layer of service on Dropbox such as the old Hamachi personal VPN services...
Eventually - Ill be able to have a completely distributed, virtualized personal network across any machine I have an account...
- DufusM 16y agoWindows Live Mesh, an equivalent Microsoft product, has the p2p sync functionality in addition to cloud sync. http://www.winsupersite.com/article/product-review/how-to-live-mesh-peer-to-peer-folder-sync.aspx http://www.winsupersite.com/article/product-review/how-to-li...
- phlux 16y agoI dual boot most of my machines, so I find anything that is 100% windows only to be less than optimal. But the tech is interesting.
- contextfree 16y agofwiw, it supports Mac as well.
- Hume 16y agoIt supports linux too, I've had it up and running on Mint and Ubuntu for at least 6 months.
- dedward 16y agoDropbox already takes advantage of the local subnet if it can for synchronization... has for quite a while now.
- phlux 16y agoThanks, I didnt know this , was pretty obvious for them to do it that way.