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Yeah, don't bother with auto-merging if you're using wi-fi. Recording from multiple devices generate too much data for Wifi merging, and IMO, merging this way is not worth it if you just want to 'quickly' check your data.
If you need to check your data after recording, your computers really should be connecting via network cables. For me, the merging process seems to take only a few seconds when using cables. Then I can check if I'm not confident about the take, and move forward to the next one.
Also, I suggesting recording shorter takes. Some new users will let iPi run forever and create monstrously huge files. Multiply that data by the number of recording devices, and no wonder there are efficiency problems. Extra large files are also more difficult to manage inside Mocap Studio, and a big waste of resources if there's also a large amount of unusable data inside it.
What I typically do is record a specific action, maybe do a couple of extra variations or 'takes', and stop recording. Then I immediately log info about the take in a spreadsheet. This make is so much easier to find exactly what you need later when you're tracking motion, especially if you're recording for multiple characters and many scenes. The shorter recordings make it easier to find and mark your takes, and leaves a lot more RAM available in your graphics card and CPU for processing.
Rehearsing your motions a few times before recording is good too...that helps you from recording a lot of junk data.
Hope this helps.
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