From my perspective, one of the most exciting benefits is that Pogoplug elevates your home to "cloud" status. That means that all capabilities are available from anywhere on the Internet without a user ever having to think "where am I and will that work?"

Other than network latency (and filesystem formats and network topology effecting performance both positively and negatively) one of the really cool aspects of the system design is that our service "knows" when you are on the same LAN. The software and hardware optimization work has really paid off and I think you will be excited about the performance.