Just moved to Resilio from Dropbox around two to three weeks ago.
There are two major pains I have, both of them affecting iOS mostly, making it unusable in a real-world application.
I would like to make it very clear that I’m not talking about background sync, I understand it’s lacking due to iOS limitations.
The first issue I have is peer discovery; it is too slow. This isn’t a big problem on a NAS or Desktop, but is unacceptable on iOS.
Even when I setup predefined hosts, I open the app then have to wait sometimes minutes for peers to connect.
I also tried turning off relay server, LAN discovery and tracking to force the app to only use the predefined NAS for syncing. It still takes an unreasonable, excruciating amount of time for the phone to find the NAS sitting on the same VLAN as the phone, with the address already handed to it. This should take no more than a couple of seconds.
What’s worse is even after waiting for peering to happen the app kicks into indexing the photos for the camera backup every time it’s opened and will not upload any new files until it's done, even when there are no new photos/videos.
This means if I add a new file from my phone I have to open Resilio and wait with the app open up to 5 minutes until the file finally gets synced to the Desktop and NAS. The issue isn’t bandwidth; once the syncing starts it’s done in a second or two.
I can email the file from the phone, download it on the laptop, add it to a syncing folder and it will propagate to the NAS and desktop way faster than adding the file through the Resilio app on iOS.
I’m running Resilio in a Docker container on the NAS, two MacOS clients and an iPhone 6S. Have a Home Pro licence activated. iPhone is connected through AC wifi, can pull around 200-300 Mbps, all other peers are hardwired on the same Gigabit switch the AP is connected to.
Is there any way to speed things up? I think it is unreasonable to expect a user to sit around for minutes like an idiot with the app open in hand waiting for a 200KB file to upload.
