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You get better performance (and Netgear's costs are less) when you connect locally to the NAS and avoid the cloud servers. So the ReadyCloud apps and PC software try a local connection first, and then fail over to VPN if that doesn't connect.
The NAS itself needs to maintain a lightweight connection to the ReadyCloud server (through the VPN) even if your apps aren't using the cloud servers at the moment.
