Comments on: Live Mesh: Better Alternative to DropBox, 5GB Free Space

By: Shinto

Shinto — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:03:20 +0000

Don’t bother with Live Mesh it is inferior to its predecessor (Live Sync) and not an alternative for Dropbox.

1) Live mesh is INCREDIBLY slow. transferring files even in a local gigabit network takes hours,days or WEEKS. ( Major flaw in its framework. It will always transfer the files across the Internet and will fail to resolve in LAN )

2) Live mesh does not expose all the same information that Live Sync used to do.

3) Again. VERY SLOW.

By: Kooba

Kooba — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:00:52 +0000

No XP support…no deal. When will MS learn…considering loads of businesses still use XP as their primary OS. Typical MS, behind the curve on just about everything that is good about web 2.0.

By: me

me — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:24:31 +0000

The major drawback of live mesh is that it does not work with windows xp. Seriously, how come microsoft gives better support to mac users than to their own clients?

By: Kars

Kars — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:22:17 +0000

does it work on linux? I don’t think so.. Dropbox does! I like the amount of storage data, but as a linux user this isn’t an alternative for me.

By: TheGooch

TheGooch — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:54:01 +0000

How do they compare from a performance and security perspective?

Dropbox’s differential synchronization, where it only sync’s the bits that have changed is big reason that I went with them. And what if you not all of your computers are Windows?

Another good feature of Dropbox is LAN or local synchronization between systems on the same network. They can bypass Dropbox and sync directly(faster) with other systems on the same LAN.

What if I need 30GB of storage? How do they compare then?

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By: Ishan

Ishan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:02:06 +0000

@J: You have made a very good point. I use RDP at work, and absolutely love it. But as you said, it is not available with all versions, so left it out. I am not aware about Wake On Lan.. could you elaborate.

By: J

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:08:53 +0000

Regarding remote connection, it seems like that feature is redundant with Remote Desktop? It would be good for Windows versions that do not support RD hosts though, like the non-Professional editions. Also, I’m surprised that you do not cover RDP in your “5 Free Software to Connect Remotely…” article since it comes with most versions of Windows. Another tip is to use Wake On Lan to avoid having to always leave the computer on for remoting purposes…takes some configuring to use though…haven’t gotten it to work yet personally.

By: Ishan

Ishan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:58:25 +0000

@ricky: That’s a pretty good idea ricky. I will give that a shot. However, I noticed that my Live Mesh was slow in the beginning, but now it is as fast as Dropbox. I believe initial slowness was just because of the fact that it was trying to upload more than a gig of data.