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LAN sync is only available on Dropbox and is incredibly useful.

• ceejayoz 12y ago
  I really wish all the Dropbox clients on a LAN would coordinate and not all download the same file from Dropbox. We had our three work machines all downloading a ~400MB file the other day. No reason Dropbox couldn't figure that out and have one machine download the file and then distribute over LAN.
  • gumby 12y ago
    "No reason Dropbox couldn't figure that out and have one machine download the file and then distribute over LAN." They could have each machine download a chunk and have them swap chunks locally. That would asymptote in time towards a single download. That would handle cases of the "one" machine going offline close to the end, or having it being the slowest machine available.
    • ceejayoz 12y ago
      That's a great idea to handle those sorts of edge cases.
    • rhizome 12y ago
      In other words, a slightly more managed Bit Torrent.
• cool-RR 12y ago
  It's also available on AeroFS, and it actually works much better on AeroFS. (I still prefer Dropbox to AeroFS because Dropbox is more reliable.)
• edude03 12y ago
  BTSync has it as well.
• MartinMond 12y ago
  I tried BTSync and was blown away by how much faster sync in general and especially LAN sync was. I guess Bittorrent Inc. knows how to properly transfer files.
• corford 12y ago
  Spideroak does LAN sync as well