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Insane Slow Download Speeds
I have been dealing with insane slow download speeds for folders and files for the past few days. I have run internet speed tests which came back great. Dropbox app is up to date. The bandwidth is se...
I'm also dealing with very very slow download speeds.
I have been attempting to download a 190MB file for the past two days, and it keeps timing out due to speeds ranging from 40-100KB/s.
I am on Xfinity Gigabit internet connection and have independently verified my connection speed through SpeedTest, and Fast.com. I also rebooted my wifi router, just to be on the safeside. I tried downloading on both Firefox and Edge latest browsers.
This is pretty clearly an issue with Dropbox service.
I just upgraded to Dropbox Plus and the speeds are still very very slow.
I'm not surprised to find all these messages about insanely slow download speeds from dropbox. I at times exprience 5-10 KB/second downloads. For a frame of reference, that's 1/10th the speed of dial-up internet.
This occurs despite having my dropbox app bandwith settings unrestricted, despite having very high-speed internet for my work, and despite stopping all other internet programs that run concurrently. The problem is on dropbox's side, not mine.
- Megan
Dropbox Staff
Hey tgauerke, thanks for posting today!
Can you let me know your app's syncing status, along with the version that you're using?
Do you also happen to have an idea, as to how many files your Dropbox account has? Is it possible that it's more than 300K, since that could decline the app's performance?
Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there!
Hi Megan,
I attached screenshots showing the app version and an example from this morning of the frequent slow speed.
I don't know the number of files our account has. However, since a Dropbox for Business account can hold up to 5 terabytes, shouldn't it easily be capable of accommodating over 300K files? 5 terabytes consisting of <300K in files would mean every file is ~20MB in size, which is not a likely business scenario.
I don't understand why Dropbox for Business would market 5 terabytes of space if Dropbox isn't capable of handling the number of files that would fill that space.
