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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...
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.
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
