I’m new to syncthing, have been using BTSync/Resilio in the past. One thing I have a question on. It seems like getting syncthing working requires port forwarding through firewall/router. Is this always the case?
If so, then syncthing would only really be syncing at home, not at office/school/traveling/etc, as these firewalls are out of my control, correct?
Thank you
If Syncthing cannot get a direct connection it will use relay servers. But that servers normally have speed limits of 100KB/s per connection. For fast transfers, you need a direct connection. For a direct connection, one of the two devices needs to have port forwarding, so if you want to sync office/school/traveling/etc with your device at home, it will work, as you can setup port forwarding at home.
Syncthing will use UPnP and also only needs one device to accept incoming connections. If it cannot make a direct connection it will fall back to using the relay network to establish connections.
This is all described in the firewall documentation.
Thanks!
I didn’t realize only ONE device needed to have access. I will set up my home computer to run direct connection.