Change Wifi Sync to LAN Sync [Feature Request].

[John Bentley]

I can get MLO to "Wifi Sync" between my Desktop and Android App reliably.

However, this depends having all connections to the router being Wifi. This is unnecessarily restrictive and I request that "Wifi Sync" be changed to "LAN Sync" (in functionality and some suitable name like that).

To make this need clear: my desktop PC is generally wired (via Ethernet) to my router; and my Android Phone, of course, connects via Wifi to my router. To get MLO to "Wifi Sync" I need to (temporarily) connect my desktop PC via Wifi. However, that breaks the functionality of what a (local) network is supposed to be: all devices that want to talk to each should be able to do so at the application layer in a connection agnostic fashion.

[John Bentley]

As you were: I can get syncing even when my desktop PC is wired (via Ethernet) to my router.

It was a matter of permanently reserving the *wired* connection Desktop Mac/IP address in my router's DHCP server. Rather, that is, than permanently reserving the *wireless* connection Desktop Mac/IP address in my router's DHCP serve.

[imajeff]

Certainly, what they called "WiFi Sync" is a misnomer.

It just requires that both the host and device syncing be on the same LAN. At first I thought your request was that they start calling it what it literally is, "LAN Sync"

so I really hope they will change that name.

There actually is a reason why it might work only on someone's WiFi however. The same LAN means both have the same subnet mask and net address. Sometimes the WiFi is a different subnet just to protect local computers from invasion through WiFi.

In that case you could not sync from your phone on wifi to your desktop plugged in. Both would have to be either on the WiFi or plugged in.