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Dropbox not uploading/ uploading v slow
I have dropbox installed on multiple devices and they all work fine, except it has suddenly stopped uploading on my windows laptop.
I moved a load of photos off my phone onto dropbox on my laptop l...
I have a 5MB upload hard wired internet. Yet when I upload large files using my desktop application, I'm only getting 10-66kb transfer speeds. Why so slow? My ISP has checked and found nothing wrong with my service. Is Dropbox "throttling back" my upload speed? There are no other devises being used that would reduce band width. Please help!
It is unfortunate really. I haven't had the problems you have had with RAM/CPU usage, but do I have the bandwidth issue fairly often.
Almost every test I have run, using different file types, settings, computers, ISPs, operating systems, etc points to a bottle neck on the Dropbox side. Either an artificial software bottleneck or a real hardware one.
Of course, Dropbox would never admit to this. They would never admit that they are either A) purposefully limiting transfer speeds or B) not spending enough on bandwidth/hardware.
They have no choice but to ignore us in some sense. This is why every time someone complains about bandwidth they give you the boiler plate set of steps on how to "solve it" -- and they are steps that are OBVIOUS. (Checking ISP bandwidth, very DB settings, etc)
It also seems quite likely that they can't afford more hardware resources. Unless amazon is giving them an unprecedented discount on S3 storage and EC2 instances, just looking at the cheapest bulk-buy public facing costs of these services -- dropbox can't really make money once your account hits around 250-300 GB. (For the 1TB accounts) Again, not something they are likely to admit to in the near future. I guess our only hope is the hardware costs continue to fall and they find some efficiency gains in their software/algorithms to solve this issue.
