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  • pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    I use local send and it’s really great. When it works. Which is about 30% of the time. I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong but I’ve seen heaps of people recommending it but it just doesn’t work for me, most of the time I the devices just don’t see each other when they are on the same network.

    • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      If an individual device has a VPN active it won’t work. Also make sure the network doesn’t have AP isolation turned on.

      Besides that I tried using it at work on their network and it wouldn’t find the other device for some reason.

      Besides all that, it works great for me

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      3 days ago

      If it’s intermittent and you’re on wireless, maybe one device is on 2.4ghz and one is on 5ghz? Sometimes the networks are kept seperate.

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          3 days ago

          This is all router dependent or course but the same default settings that prevent devices to communicate betwen 2.4 and 5ghz can also prevent a wired connection from communicating with a wireless device. It’s been awhile and it’ll be different for each router but I have seen that network isolation enabled by default on a router before.