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Boris S.6
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

Super slow downloads in browser

Hello I tried to share a file (600 MB) with someone and he told me, the download was super slow. Almost 1 hour (he has a 50MBit connection). So I tried to download it by myself and the result was t...
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trellos
New member | Level 2
10 years ago
Any help on this? We have the same issue. At the office we have great bandwidth. I can regularly download from google drive at fast speeds. Dropbox takes ~10 minutes to download a 60mb file. What's happening to make this so slow?
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JS
Helpful | Level 5
10 years ago

Nothing on my side. It's intermittent, most of the time it's fine, the download is complete before I find a location to file it. Other times it takes 10 minutes to an hour to download a 30MB file. I can't find any correllation other than it seems to freeze up if I download several items in a row, like it's throttling me. 

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