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Data flow - PC's on LAN

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Old 04-05-2008   #1 (permalink)
William
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Data flow - PC's on LAN

Hi,

When syncing 2 PC's on a common LAN, does any data go via the internet?

Old 04-05-2008   #2 (permalink)
StephanSF
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Re: Data flow - PC's on LAN

On Apr 5, 3:06 am, William <Will...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> When syncing 2 PC's on a common LAN, does any data go via the internet?
Im not sure if *any* data goes via internet, but in theory.. and the
way it used to work before MS's "upgrades", computers on a lan would
talk to one another directly. I dont know how Foldershare works
exactly, but since it updates the file counts on the FolderShare
website, SOME data is flowing back to the website no matter whether
you're exclusively on a lan or not. But the file transfers should
happen intra-lan
Old 04-16-2008   #3 (permalink)
chandrasekhar
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Re: Data flow - PC's on LAN

Hello,
I had the same question and I tried it out on my laptop and office pc,
connected through the same LAN to the internet.
It seems that the data is going out to the internet and coming back to my
2nd computer.
I can monitor the network usage from task manager and the data is getting
transferred at the speed of my DSL connection rather than the speed of the
LAN (1Mbps) rather than 100Mbps.
Is there a setting or something else that can change this behaviour? I could
not find anything on the FAQ or the help pages.

Thank
chandrasekhar



"StephanSF@xxxxxx" wrote:
Quote:

> On Apr 5, 3:06 am, William <Will...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > When syncing 2 PC's on a common LAN, does any data go via the internet?
>
> Im not sure if *any* data goes via internet, but in theory.. and the
> way it used to work before MS's "upgrades", computers on a lan would
> talk to one another directly. I dont know how Foldershare works
> exactly, but since it updates the file counts on the FolderShare
> website, SOME data is flowing back to the website no matter whether
> you're exclusively on a lan or not. But the file transfers should
> happen intra-lan
>
Old 04-16-2008   #4 (permalink)
StephanSF
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Re: Data flow - PC's on LAN

On Apr 16, 12:31 am, chandrasekhar
<chandrasek...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

> Hello,
> I had the same question and I tried it out on my laptop and office pc,
> connected through the same LAN to the internet.
> It seems that the data is going out to the internet and coming back to my
> 2nd computer.
> I can monitor the network usage from task manager and the data is getting
> transferred at the speed of my DSL connection rather than the speed of the
> LAN (1Mbps) rather than 100Mbps.
> Is there a setting or something else that can change this behaviour? I could
> not find anything on the FAQ or the help pages.
>
> Thank
> chandrasekhar
>
I am not aware of any setting. I know before MS started changing the
program this would always work, i.e. date would always travel via lan
on lan connected computers. Now that MS has made changes, I noticed
that sometimes that works and sometimes it doesnt.
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