It would be incredibly interesting if your dropbox machines all ran a bitorrent client that auto shared the syncing between them all.
With logic to determine which machines are closest (in bandwidth)
So that if I have my 5+ machines at home (desktops, laptops and phones, which all have the client on them) - they all see that they are on the same subnet and sync very fast between each other.
Then update the cloud at the same time - in the same fashion... chop all the changes up amongst the machines. (sure, I still have a single pipe via my cable modem - but this would be helpful when I am on work lan too...)
EDIT: it would be great to see an added layer of service on Dropbox such as the old Hamachi personal VPN services...
Eventually - Ill be able to have a completely distributed, virtualized personal network across any machine I have an account...
With logic to determine which machines are closest (in bandwidth)
So that if I have my 5+ machines at home (desktops, laptops and phones, which all have the client on them) - they all see that they are on the same subnet and sync very fast between each other.
Then update the cloud at the same time - in the same fashion... chop all the changes up amongst the machines. (sure, I still have a single pipe via my cable modem - but this would be helpful when I am on work lan too...)
EDIT: it would be great to see an added layer of service on Dropbox such as the old Hamachi personal VPN services...
Eventually - Ill be able to have a completely distributed, virtualized personal network across any machine I have an account...