I know it seems simplistic, but I’m not in a position to test apologies if this is a very basic question. I was wondering if one might be able to speed up how quickly a remote device might synchronise, by manually synchronising files between devices where that’s practical, thus adding more devices capable of delivering pieces of a file at once to devices where manual sync was not practical.
If you have a team of say 6 people ‘Team A’ who all live nearby one another, and 1 person ‘Team B’ who lives in another country, and they are all connected via SyncThing, could you help increase the rate at which Team A Syncs with Team B by physically copying the material from an external hard drive to the sync folder of all the team A members creating an ‘instantaneous’ sync and therefore allowing for a faster sync with Team B by way of the combined bandwidth of all Team A’s members, using SyncThing to coordinate the effort?
It sounds to me like it would work but I wondered if SyncThing can actually tell that you’ve put exactly the same file on each machine when it’s copied from the external drive.