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cfw0047
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Download speed is down to 20KB/sec

It started out at 900KB/sec (acceptable if not still pretty darn slow) and then rapidly descended all the way to a low of 20KB/sec.  It took me five minutes to download a 23MB song for a video projec...
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gh41
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Hello. I'm currently unable to download any files. Dropbox says it will take 2 hours to download a 185MB file. It gets about halfway there and then fails. I've been trying to download 3 files for the last 3 hours. ZERO SUCCESS!! This is ridiculous!

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    Stefen H.
    Collaborator | Level 8
    5 years ago

    There was a problem earlier, according to the Dropbox status page. This might be related.

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      gh41
      Explorer | Level 3
      5 years ago

      Yep... and the problem persists. I've used Dropbox for years and have never encountered a problem like this. 

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