David Steere and Trevor Robinson: How Live Mesh P2P Syncing Works

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jul 11th, 2008 @ 1:14 AM | 79,368 Views | 25 Comments
Live Mesh is built around a relationship directory to let the machines in your mesh communicate with one another on your behalf.  Any two devices can use the directory and the mesh communication services to set up an encrypted channel for sharing data or synchronizing. 

In this interview, we’ll whiteboard out exactly how a Live Mesh peer-to-peer session is established, along with the newly added support for synching files with only your device, and not with the Live Desktop cloud storage service.
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#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 1:33 AM
CKurt
CKurt
while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

Love it !

Bye Bye FolderShare (at least when this P2P will be activated) because I still cann't select 'don't sync with this device' with live desktop)

#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 4:24 AM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw
sound great Smiley
mesh is firmly fixed im my everyday activites now Smiley
it used to be sucha pain working from home on stuff at work (we dont allow non company computers on to our vpn) but now it just works Smiley  i havent had a single sync problem and it just works great Smiley

lmrd save my butt the other day when production went down and i hadnt brought my computer home.
i just logged in to the work computer and sorted it out Smiley

any news on the skydrive (and other) integration btw?
great stuff guys Smiley
#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 7:09 AM
jjesse
jjesse
Question I have is on the speed of the sync.... It seems to trickle so slowly to other machines.... I added a 1.5 Gig zip file to my mesh on Monday and still waiting for it to finish uploading to my mesh folder.  Any way to increase the speed?
#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 7:31 AM
CKurt
CKurt
while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }
Man that's a biggg upload, that's 10% of my quota per month
#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 9:16 AM
hampycapper
hampycapper
Yeah, we definately have some perf issues in the current release. The upcoming release should be better.

When you say "upload to my mesh folder", do you mean to the LivePC view? Or uploading to other devices?
#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 10:55 AM
jmazner
jmazner
Just FYI, the new release is propping to servers now and should be live later today.  A few more details on the Mesh blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/livemesh/archive/2008/07/11/service-update-new-build-new-features-coming-today-0-9-3103-2.aspx.

@aL_ : Nothing new to say on integration with other MS propertise/apps yet, but we are definitely contiuing to work on this.
#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 1:41 PM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw
alright Smiley

also, i've hears macs are planned as mesh clients, are there also plans for something like a playstation 3? that would be cool Smiley
#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 2:17 PM
jamiet
jamiet
Jeremy,
If you could have a word with the Zune team and ask them to build Zune upon Mesh so that I can associate a Zune device with my Mesh rather than one of my computers then I would be very grateful. Wink

cheers
Jamie
#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 3:56 PM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
Alright, being able to sync across devices only sounds perfect.

How well does Mesh play with WHS, by the way? On the WHS, you're supposed to access your folders through their network name instead of just the local path, because apparently you're going to mess up the whole RAID-like file system thing. It'd be pretty sweet if you could, for instance, keep all your media shared on the WHS so your PC's at home can use them, but at the same time sync the entire folder to your laptop using mesh for when you're on the road. Pick up something along the way, drop it in the mesh folder on your laptop, and it's on your WHS when you get back.
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