marsch
November 4, 2022, 10:49am
1
Hi,
now with Update to 1.22.1 I have a new symbol for every device but why is there a Wireless LAN sign behind every computer that is connected with wired LAN?
bt90
November 4, 2022, 10:57am
2
opened 11:52PM - 30 Mar 22 UTC
closed 04:15PM - 30 Sep 22 UTC
enhancement
ui
### Problem
I've noticed that more often than I'd expect, I have devices conn… ected over a (slow) relay when they can have a (fast) local connection. It's easy to miss, but when big syncs take a long time, you'll start looking. I've seen this multiple times, for a variety of reasons. One time I entered the wrong tcp://ip-address so dynamic was used. Another time I used a laptop at the office first and the 24/7 online home server never used the local ip when I was on the home wifi, until I restarted syncthing on the home server. And just now I noticed that a remote connection with a very fast optical fiber was using a slow relay for the past year.
### Feature
It would help to see a label, icon or indicator of sorts to show if a relay was used, or a direct remote connection, or a LAN connection, and some polite way of indicating that a direct connection is better than a relay. This way you'd immediately see if it is what you expected or not. This illustrates what I mean:
> ### Remote Devices
>
> [[device1] [LAN 🤩] [Up to Date]]
> [[device2] [LAN 🤩] [Up to Date]]
> [[device3] [direct 😄] [Up to Date]]
> [[device4] [relay 🙂] [Up to Date]]
Encouraging users to check their connections this way also alleviates relays that provide an invaluable service from peers that unknowingly unnecessarily burden those relays when all they need to do is a restart, config change or port forward. This way they get a faster sync, and the relays are free to service users that really need it.
This is a simple good/better/best indicator for the connection type.
I’d add that this is more like the signal strength icon on a phone, not necessarily related to Wi-Fi. Syncthing doesn’t care specifically whether your connection is wired or wireless.
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marsch
November 5, 2022, 3:12pm
4
OK, that makes sence, thank you.
Speaking about symbols, do the symbols in front of the devices in the Remote List any sence? All are different here…
Those are just randomly generated to help distinguish between different devices. There is no special meaning to them.