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Maximum download and upload speeds
I'm setting up a new computer and syncing my dropbox business account to it. The internet connection is great on fiber optic cable (1500MB/s) but my download speeds on dropbox are about 24MB/sec Wha...
That won't do you any good. There are so many things that affect speed that you could have two people with an identical setup and still have wildly different speeds. Your computer, your local network, your ISP, the route your traffic takes to get to Dropbox, the Dropbox network and servers, congestion along any part of the route to Dropbox, throttling by your ISP (very common), failures along the route that cause your traffic to take another path, etc.
Simply put, there is no expected speed. You get whatever speed you're capable of given all the factors above, and many others.
Mate Iâm very aware of the difference between MBps and Mbps.
My downloads are routinely 80-100MBps on every other service except Dropbox.
If youâre telling me that the max speed of Dropbox uploads is a flat 13.5MBps then itâs wildly unfit for purpose as a business service.
My downloads are routinely 80-100MBps on every other service except Dropbox.
If youâre telling me that the max speed of Dropbox uploads is a flat 13.5MBps then itâs wildly unfit for purpose as a business service.
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIWhat I'm telling you, "mate," is that you need to understand what that speed is referring to, and not just compare it to a transfer speed you get from another service that doesn't do the same chunking of files that Dropbox has to do before transferring anything.
I'm not saying Dropbox is faster or even as fast as other services. I am saying, understand how the service works and what the numbers represent before attempting to compare the speeds to other services.
- As a business user in the video industry, I'm dealing with 100 GB transfers and quick turn around times so I am comparing it to other services. Dropbox suits our needs and is part of our workflow, but I would like to optimize our speeds, because there are cases when I need to use other services because dropbox is so much slower. It breaks our workflow, when we use another transfer method. It doesn't matter to us WHY it's slower. With Gigabit connections getting so common, people are expecting more.
I agree with your observations. For me, Dropbox service is slower than others. I get around 3500kB/s (30 Mbps) upload and 7000-8000 kB/s (50-60 Mbps) download. I'm on 400/150 Mbps fiber and waiting for upload to complete is killing me.
Sometimes I have to use Onedrive to quickly upload material for the clients as Onedrive totally maxes out my connection. Dropbox takes several times longer to complete the upload comparing to Onedrive.
- Rich always seems angry? Are you angry mate? P.S. Mate is normal lingo in some places, not worthy of cynical quotations.
becoming less happy with the service as of late. First the symlink change which they could have at least made an option instead of screwing the masses.
now I finally circumvent that by literally shooting my large files to another pc and installing dropbox there in order to get them uploaded, and turns out im uploading at 3000kbps.........this is on symmetrical gigabit fiber. if this is what its like with the "no limit" box checked, i can only imagine at the alternative lol.
for whatever reason i am able to double to triple it 7-12000kbps if i connect to a vpn.
either way abysmally slowWhat operating system are you using? I used Dropbox on two different Win 7 machines and I never got upload more than 3500 kbps. When I installed Win 10 on one of the machines, Dropbox is suddenly capable of maxing out my 400/150 Mbps connection. I think something is wrong with their Win 7 application.
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