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georgia100
Explorer | Level 4
11 months ago

Lousy upload speed. VERY slow suddenly.

I'm really getting pissed.  I've spoken to dropbox a couple times about the extremely slow upload speeds i'm getting... The problem is definitly on the DROPBOX side since I can upload to other servic...
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Jay
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Hi georgia100, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Are you getting this behavior on any other devices on the same network?

 

Do you have any proxy, VPN, firewall, security software, or even ISP/router settings that could be restricting traffic to the following Dropbox domains?

 

This will help me to assist further!

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georgia100
Explorer | Level 4
11 months ago

I am only using one system. I can upload a 2 gig file to any other network service in under 30 seconds. But to dropbox it's literally taking hours... 2 to 3 sometimes 5 or 6 hours. 

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