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jeanzbeanz's avatar
jeanzbeanz
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

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...
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  • Jane's avatar
    Jane
    8 years ago
    Hey walwar, 
     
    Let me send over some more details and tips to determine the cause!
     
    • For starters, you may have a look here for some steps to adjust your bandwidth locally. 
    • Secondly, you could try force quitting all other applications and see if this helps improving your syncing speed. 
    • Also, let me ask you whether you’re in a work or home environment. 
    • You could use the link below to check your connection speed through your ISP and local network by using the following link: http://www.speedtest.net/
     
    I’ll be following-up here, so please keep me updated in your reply! 
Douglas S.'s avatar
Douglas S.
New member | Level 1

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!

Bob B.56's avatar
Bob B.56
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Dropbox does not seem to be scalable.

I received a number of responses to posts I made to this thread. But I'm really stuck with the conclusion above. Allow me to review.

Use the Dropbox Desktop client.

  1. I'm using two Dropbox accounts and I'm told that I cannot use the desktop client for both; it works very well for the free account which has fewer files.
  2. The Pro account is for the entire D: drive which is MyDocuments. MyDocs has thousands of files and is 200+GB in size; how is that going to work?
  3. The Desktop Client is a duplicate of whatever gets dropped there, correct?
  4. Someone mentioned Hashing and Compression on the client side; how will that affect upload speed, especially for a .zip file that is already compressed?
  5. I'm using six threads on GoodSync to upload. Does the Desktop Client multi-thread?

IP Upload Speed. This is a stale argument at best.

  1. I can verify with Speedtest.net that I have 25MB+ download and 10MB+ upload.
  2. I routinely transfer very large files up and down to Salesforce.com.

Simple math.

  1. The very best upload speed I've seen here in this thread is 1600kbs or 200KBs (.2MBs), this is abysmal compared to 10MBs.
  2. I have seen better than that but only for short times.
  3. MyDocs is 142GB, almost none of which is pictures or graphics.
  4. At .2MBs it will take at least 8.2 days to upload all of it.
  5. I synchronize at least 250MB per day. It will take 21 mins to do that. I do this all at once, and no, I don't want it to happen all day long. It currently takes 6 mins to do it remotely.

So, offering 1TB for $10 per month is great but only if you can actually use it.

Dropbox does not seem to scale.

 ymmv... Bob

 

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