well, first of all the published drives are not really "on" your LAN. They exist in the "cloud" or WAN. So any connection to these drives even if inside the same laptop case is over your lan to your router to pogo's router back to your router then back to the computer you are accessing them from--even if it is the same computer.

This is what I was lead to believe by a pogo tech voice.

Same with an external drive plugged into a pogoplug device. The connection is not LAN (or "network attached storage" but WAN or "internet connected storage"). If your internet connection has a slow upload speed, this will reflect on the access speed for those drives.

Each computer would need to be on and connected to the internet for it's pogo published drive to be available.

does this help conceptually?