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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
I don't believe it's that local network copies are slower. The bottleneck is always on the slowest link in the chain so if your LAN is limited to, say, 100Mbps, then that's also the max internet (ergo Dropbox) speed you'll get.
Rather, it's likely because Dropbox runs and syncs continuously in the background so one doesn't really notice its actual transfer speed.
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No, it doesn't. I only start Dropbox when I want to sync and exit afterwards. To do otherwise is to ask for library corruption.
Actually I haven't tried syncing my library over local network for a long time. Possibly things have changed (for example, I have a new and much faster laptop). I might try again someday and compare the results. I'd still have to copy the books manually over, though, vs Dropbox doing it for me. Running FreeFileSync over local network is too slow, certainly much slower than Dropbox (well, my library is huge, 30 GB, so that's probably the reason).