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It takes a lot longer than a few minutes for it to speed up. Sometimes I come back the next morning and it's still running in the 2K-5K per second range.

I thought it was peer-to-peer, I don't think they're even keeping copies of the data.

BTW, I'm running the 0.8 version, it's supposedly faster, but so far -- doesn't seem to be.




I don't think they're using peer to peer. From what I know they use local syncing on the client and the content is uploaded via SSL, and stored encrypted on EC2 storage.


Thanks -- a friend and I were discussing that the other day. I wasn't sure, he thought for sure it was P2P.


It is peer 2 peer within the lan ( see options - enable lan syncing ). This is great for companies that manage shares though dropbox. This way you don't have 40 people download the same bit.




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