# Purely local setup **URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/purely-local-setup/20992 **Category:** Support **Created:** [October 27, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/purely-local-setup/20992 "2023-10-27T12:11:09Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![er-pa](https://forum.syncthing.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@er-pa](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/er-pa) #### Post date: [October 27, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/purely-local-setup/20992/2 "2023-10-27T15:05:17Z")
There are some posts spread on the forum which can help you to get started and/or understand some settings which may be useful for you. In the base, Syncthing can and does use local connections where/when possible. So if you disable the WAN-related settings it should get you already to a solid point for your use-case. Also please note that Android + discovery is a difficult subject though, there are quite some topics on the forum about that which are probably worth looking into as well. [Limit Syncthing to only use local network: Review and suggestions appreciated](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/limit-syncthing-to-only-use-local-network-review-and-suggestions-appreciated/20117) (a bit of a summary of options that have to do with global/local connections, you may want to read through the entire thread to see what’s of use and what isn’t) [How do I stop it from blabbing to the world? - #4 by Nummer378](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-do-i-stop-it-from-blabbing-to-the-world/19914/4) (it’s advised to not scroll through the entire thread here as it was otherwise a bit toxic, but this comment had good input). I think for your case disabling `relay` and `global discovery` will prob do quite a lot already. Then also set `allowedNetworks` [allowedNetworks — Syncthing documentation](https://docs.syncthing.net/advanced/device-allowednetworks.html#allowednetworks) to just your LAN’s network address. From that point on it’s more or less checking what settings can help in making it more silent to the outside world. And as a side-note; it’s now also an issue on the docs-repo; [Tuning article for avoiding any Internet/non-local chatter · Issue #834 · syncthing/docs · GitHub](https://github.com/syncthing/docs/issues/834) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/purely-local-setup/20992)._