socket.timeout issue even with session upload

Here is the error. I've tried it on several machine and even on my Mac at different locations (coffee shop, client's office and the home office) i still get the socket issue

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 387, in _make_request
    six.raise_from(e, None)
  File "<string>", line 2, in raise_from
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 383, in _make_request
    httplib_response = conn.getresponse()
  File "C:\Python32\lib\http\client.py", line 1321, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "C:\Python32\lib\http\client.py", line 296, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "C:\Python32\lib\http\client.py", line 257, in _read_status
    line = str(self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1), "iso-8859-1")
  File "C:\Python32\lib\socket.py", line 589, in readinto
    return self._sock.recv_into(b)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\ssl.py", line 1052, in recv_into
    return self.read(nbytes, buffer)
  File "C:\Python32\lib\ssl.py", line 911, in read
    return self._sslobj.read(len, buffer)
socket.timeout: The read operation timed out

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 449, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 641, in urlopen
    _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 368, in increment
    raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\packages\six.py", line 686, in reraise
    raise value
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 603, in urlopen
    chunked=chunked)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 389, in _make_request
    self._raise_timeout(err=e, url=url, timeout_value=read_timeout)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 307, in _raise_timeout
    raise ReadTimeoutError(self, url, "Read timed out. (read timeout=%s)" % timeout_value)
urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='content.dropboxapi.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=30)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "upload.py", line 150, in <module>
    ProcessFolder()
  File "upload.py", line 42, in ProcessFolder
    uploadLarge(local_path, dropbox_path)
  File "upload.py", line 77, in uploadLarge
    for r in readTheLines(f, fSize, destination):
  File "upload.py", line 114, in readTheLines
    dbx.files_upload_session_append_v2(chunk, CURSOR, False)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\dropbox\base.py", line 2495, in files_upload_session_append_v2
    f,
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\dropbox\dropbox.py", line 274, in request
    timeout=timeout)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\dropbox\dropbox.py", line 365, in request_json_string_with_retry
    timeout=timeout)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\dropbox\dropbox.py", line 449, in request_json_string
    timeout=timeout,
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 581, in post
    return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 533, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 646, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "C:\cygwin64\home\drop\envy2\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 529, in send
    raise ReadTimeout(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='content.dropboxapi.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=30)