Bummer. I did an app that synced data. Take care to have a last update field with date and time to sync data. Also, you have to define some rules on how data gets updated. There is always an issue that someone could be updating data at the same time on different laptops. What happens to the data then, does one over ride another, or both updates go into the database, etc.

Harrass your network people about all the active ethernet ports.