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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.
Really interesting thread! I have over half a million files in dropbox and two copies synced. One on a portable and one on a workstation.
You have to remember that Dropbox is a backup and storage service. So it is a passive process and is limited somewhat to account for the number of customers Dropbox has.
The upload process is processor intensive as other users have suggested upload speed is often quicker on faster CPUs with SSDs.
If you need a faster backup, get a NAS drive with RAID and Dropbox capabilities. The dropobx backup can then take place overnight safe in the knowledge that there are at least 2 copies already available locally.
I have this problem. I have fiber internet and my old Acer laptop is maxing out the syncing speed via Wifi. Now, I have an MSI laptop that is newer and has better specs but it syncs really slow. My PC, which is my main workstation, with even better specs and fast storage, connected to the gigabit router directly, also gets capped speeds like my MSI laptop. Currently, I'm forced to use the old laptop for syncing files and it's a bit troublesome to transfer files back and forth. I hope someone might know the fix for this. Thank you.
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