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Slow upload speed (but only to Dropbox). Dropbox is now unusable
I've begun to experience this recently: 1: Uploads to dropbox are (as of about one week ago) consistently around 0.14 Mbps. This happens through desktop or web interface. For perspective, that's...
I had been searching several times for any information specific to this problem. At first I was only finding all the typical suggestions from the past. Then when I searched again I found your post which matched the problem I was having.
We have Fision Hotwire fiber ISP. Computers are behind a router. It is easy to change the MTU with the router.
Definitely only a temporary workaround. So far not seeing other problems by changing MTU TO 1428.
I don't think the problem is actually with Dropbox. It depends on the ISP and the path the packets take to get to Dropbox. I initially tested with Comcast connection and no problems.
Test your connection with file.io upload. It was having the same problem.
Ah, cheers, then . I connected through a VPN and saw immediate restoration of transfer speeds, FWIW.
It’s not a fix, but it’s additional data that might point the way…?
My ATT “router” appliance is not feature rich(the five year old BGW 210-700), but I’ll see if it allows me to edit the IPv6 MTU. A network -savvy friend discovered that it’s likely as you seem to say: A device on one of the hops seems to be ill-configured.
Of course, that sounds like it’s genuinely not the domain of either my ISP or Dropbox…. In short, I can’t work and there’s no one to contact to “fix” the problem.
Anyone know how best to proceed if it turns out to be some random machine fouling up the path?
It’s not a fix, but it’s additional data that might point the way…?
My ATT “router” appliance is not feature rich(the five year old BGW 210-700), but I’ll see if it allows me to edit the IPv6 MTU. A network -savvy friend discovered that it’s likely as you seem to say: A device on one of the hops seems to be ill-configured.
Of course, that sounds like it’s genuinely not the domain of either my ISP or Dropbox…. In short, I can’t work and there’s no one to contact to “fix” the problem.
Anyone know how best to proceed if it turns out to be some random machine fouling up the path?
I don't know if you will be able to set the MTU for the WAN connection in that router/gateway. But what you are looking for is IPv4 MTU, not IPv6.
I had tried a VPN as a solution but it did not work for me. Once you leave the VPN tunnel you still pass through some regular IP routers to get to Dropbox. In my case it seems the problem was still happening between the VPN exit and Dropbox. In your case it sounds like you bypassed the problem spot while in the VPN tunnel so problem avoided.
If you could identify the specific routers causing the problem you could try to contact that company and tell them about the problem. That would be difficult and not worth the effort. One assumes that eventually the problem will get fixed!
Bill, you are a god, I wouldn't have thought of this in a million years, I just changed on my network settings and it worked, its amazing. I guess something changed on dropbox end and is affecting some users.
Since this morning when I try to sync, it looks like it will start but it doesnt, it shows on the status bar that it will take days to sync a few gigs and then just stops. From the web enviroment it does something similar, it starts to download but shows it will take days to do so and then just quits.
Tried other computers, other internet connections, even asked my friend and he gets the same, is all the same.
