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vasasda
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

How to speed up downloading speed?

Hello! I'd like to download a considerable amount of data from my Dropbox account and the max speed I can get 1500 kB/s. Seems like it's been limited somehow. I have Dropbox Plus. What I've tried...
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Rich
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5 years ago
vasasda wrote:

I don't see this acceptable in 2020, most of the people have much faster internet than 12 Mbit/s ..

And if we were talking about straight uploads with no other process happening to your files during that time, I'd agree with you, but that's not the case. A lot happens beyond a simple file transfer when syncing files.

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vasasda
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

So let's say the conclusion is that my CPU/HDD is the bottleneck? Do you have any recommendation what CPU is needed for using Dropbox file sync for a decent speed?

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