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jeanzbeanz
9 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Dropbox is not uploading or uploading very slowly
I have dropbox installed on multiple devices and they all work fine, except it has suddenly stopped uploading on my windows laptop.
I moved a load of photos off my phone onto dropbox on my laptop l...
- 9 years agoLet me send over some more details and tips to determine the cause!
- For starters, you may have a look here for some steps to adjust your bandwidth locally.
- Secondly, you could try force quitting all other applications and see if this helps improving your syncing speed.
- Also, let me ask you whether you’re in a work or home environment.
- You could use the link below to check your connection speed through your ISP and local network by using the following link: http://www.speedtest.net/
I’ll be following-up here, so please keep me updated in your reply!
Douglas S.
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
I have a 5MB upload hard wired internet. Yet when I upload large files using my desktop application, I'm only getting 10-66kb transfer speeds. Why so slow? My ISP has checked and found nothing wrong with my service. Is Dropbox "throttling back" my upload speed? There are no other devises being used that would reduce band width. Please help!
sherrod b.
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
there was a person on here claiming to be an engineer and sported his B.S. and I dont mean his degree...he said, its the server side, because various providers with users in varied locations have slow speeds. Well I worked For at&t. You and I both are being throttled to painfully slow speeds. ALL the providers are doing it because a common user will never notice slow upload speeds. besides drop box, They also want to throttle upload speeds to people using various sites and apps...including roku, apple tv, fire tv etc. They want to assure the experience of uploading things to facebook, and instagram etc appear very fast. if you have a crapload of users going to, or logged onto those sites in your neighborhood, YOU TOO will not have good upload speeds using some other site.
For example..Upload something to google drive? and you will see how far faster it is. They are not throttling google drive. I am not promoting GD however because they have a cap, and MyFreeAirBus doesnt have as low a cap, and for me, I sell music sounds, and want people to only have access to the file for 3 days before having to pay for it again. But they are several hours to upload 4 gigs. Im talking like 5 hours. AND NO...uploads were NEVER like this in the past. Youre paying for certain speeds, but NO PROVIDER plans on giving it to you. keep in mind..all the providers are former Ma Bell companies. they are not about to compete with each other to their own detriment.
I will give you an example. can you explain why IPTV, such as uverse and xfinity, has the ability to whip you 56 megs down over 2 pair or copper, but your Internet access is proportioned in trickling scale? because the tv is prioritized. The net isnt. Also...can you explain why you are being charged anything at all for that bundle phone you have? IP based phone? aka VOIP? a computer doesnt know the difference between you typing on a computer, playing a video game live, or using a mouse. yet the Phone...which is just as much a peripheral as the keyboard and mouse are, is being charged 30 dollars a month to have. why? because youre USED to paying a certain amount a month for a phone. Hence MagicJack, charging 19 a year? was troubling for the providers. so they simply state that if you have one, they wont trouble shoot your internet speed issues..etc.
the day wont come where there is class action for UPLOAD speeds because the new internet is really nothing more than a mess of people WATCHING the net. not CONTRIBUTING to it. they have now blocked internet radio stations except large money ones as of feb 2016. Soon there will be a licence required to upload content and the FCC will be pushed by the cable providers ...siting copyright theft issues in the movie industry....and terrorism types and police videos being uploaded causing all sorts of bad things...they will use fear and the population will agree to it, for they are mostly non creative non content uploading people. they instead are facebook types...People that will believe anything they see because it has a quote below the image of a celebrity saying it.
welcome to Internet 2.0 corporate america telling YOU what you are gonna watch.
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