Hi guys,
I have been working with some remote locations in the Brazilian Amazon and syncthing solved a big issue I had sharing files with remote partners.
Issue is they are in very isolated places or even boats, where latency on a very good day is 1200ms, but in general is above 1500ms with up to 20% loss (VSAT and BGAN)
After doing some lab over here, I found that syncthing ‘exchangeHello’ was failing because of high latency.
So I went to the source code (thanks for it) and adjusted the line on src/github.com/syncthing/syncthing/lib/connections/service.go+557 :
if err := c.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)); err != nil
to fit my needs (sometimes up to 10s), and compiled it.
This solved my issue, and it is working greatly are really helpful.
I can continue applying a patch and compiling the source for every new release I decide to use, but maybe I’m not the only one with this issue and maybe we can just have an option to adjust it - lets say between 2 and 10 seconds.
What do you guys think?
At last but not least, thanks for this great software.
Tenorio