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merk's avatar
merk
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

Ridiculously slow upload speeds

I've tried uploading through the website and using the windows app.  In both cases I'm lucky if i get 1/100 of what my actual upload limit is. I'm trying to upload about 4gb worth of files and it's s...
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  • merk's avatar
    merk
    5 years ago

    I think I found a solution for myself. I noticed that on my laptop, on the same network as my PC, even if connected via wifi, i was getting faster speeds. Did some googling and I found a network setting that when i adjusted it, improved my network speeds overall.

    If you open a command prompt with admin priviledges, run the command

    netsh interface tcp dump 

    is autotuninglevel=disabled? if so try this

    netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

    then try uploading or downloading and see if you get better results.

Alanl33's avatar
Alanl33
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Temporary fix!!!

I've also got a 1Gbps fiber connection and get 600mbps on wifi, dropbox upload is incredibly slow for uploading mass data with thousands of small files we're talking about 50mb in 1 hour, it's going to take days if not weeks to sync 2Tb and my Mac's fan is going crazy.
No restriction on bandwidth and have also tried hard-wired ethernet directly into the router.

I've been trawling through the forums and this seems to be a common problem and there are screenshots of direct speed tests with Google Drive and other cloud storage, on the same set-up and DropBox clearly has a problem. 
However, I've also found a fix, use File Zilla for incredible direct upload/download into DB, you can have 10 threads uploading in parallel and now I can see GBs uploading in realtime. 

Please please get this sorted DB as there's a bottleneck somewhere.
MacOS Catalina
16 inch Macbook Pro 

2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 

64 GB, 4TB SSD

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB

 

  • guterkerl's avatar
    guterkerl
    New member | Level 2
    4 years ago

    So it seems like I'm not the only one. Tested also uploading files to Google Drive. It was WAAAAAAY faster.

    • merk's avatar
      merk
      Helpful | Level 6
      4 years ago

      The people having problems with uploads - are you using a browser to upload or using the dropbox app/folder to upload?

      • Alanl33's avatar
        Alanl33
        Explorer | Level 4
        4 years ago

        I'm using the MacOS app

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