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anuragrb
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2 years ago

Extremely slow downloads and views

I have an extremely fast gigabit connection, and can download from most websites at near about 100MB/s. However, when I try to download folders from Dropbox, it barely downloads at 1 MB/s if I'm luck...
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anuragrb
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Unfortunately not. To make things weirder, sometimes the speed will burst up to the max bandwidth of my connection and then go back down to below 1 MB/s. It really feels like some weird form of throttling.

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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey Peter M.42, I understand you're referring to the desktop app and not the website.

 

Can you check the Dropbox application preferences, to make sure the bandwidth used is not limited?

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