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

CKurt
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#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 3:56 PM

Integration with other Microsoft Products is still going on....

For now I would be happy with selecting "Don't sync to live desktop" op the client ! They forgot to put it in....

Verdant

i'm still dying to try mesh out, but no luck getting into the beta

Bas
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In reply to CKurt

#Jul 12th, 2008 @ 9:05 AM

That's in the update that came out yesterday?

aaronjohn

In reply to Bas

#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 3:56 PM

I have WHS, and the Mesh integration is something that's still in process, I believe. Currently, the Mesh client does not install on WHS, and there is not really any way to get them to talk. It is very unfortunate, actually, and I've already requested this on the Connect site. I did receive a response from Microsoft that they are working on it, and to stay tuned.

aaronjohn

In reply to Verdant

#Jul 12th, 2008 @ 9:14 AM

Verdant,

Mesh is great, you should really try it! I believe I have one Mesh invite left - If you want to send me your email address (send to aaronjohnseldon@gmail.com), I'll see what I can do.

jmazner

In reply to aL_

#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 1:41 PM

We demo'd the Mac client at Web 2.0 and that work is coming along nicely (we're also working on the win mobile client we showed.) We haven't talked about any platforms beyond those for now.

jmazner

In reply to jamiet

#Jul 11th, 2008 @ 2:17 PM

They are indeed one of the teams we've been talking with internally. Can't say any more than that for now.

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

I am still confused on the push-v-pull notification question. They slip push into doco, but it still seems like pull to me as the client is polling for notifications (I ~think) every 25 seconds or so. Apple seems to be making a big deal out of "push" email now - like that is something new. SMTP has been a push protocol for years. The last mile (i.e. pop3) is pull. I don't have a major preference as pull works for most. However for "twitter" like notifications, 25 seconds could be too long and a polling loop wastes bandwidth. So a clean push may be best. That said, things like PointCast collapsed under heavy "push" traffic, so I understand some balance is needed and it is not a clear solution. Any clear direction on push/poll client protocol direction for mesh yet or still in development? tia

intrepid

If I have two networked clients sharing files (but not to the cloud),will Mesh use my LAN to synch the two machines, or will it still send all the data over the internet?