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jeanzbeanz
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago
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Dropbox not uploading/ uploading v slow

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...
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  • Jane's avatar
    Jane
    9 years ago
    Hey walwar, 
     
    Let 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.'s avatar
Douglas S.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

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!

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Nicole V.9
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

I kind of wish I had paid attention to when I started uploading this one file via the basic file uploader on the site, but I hadn't. All I can say is that I've been at home for 2 hours and reading through this thread and still can't get the new folder to upload. I just tried the basic uploader again at 10:15pm CST. It's a 4.48MB PDF. I'll let you know when/if it uploads.

 

What I find amusing is the reason I switched from Google Drive to Dropbox was that when I was accessing my school files, it would take forever for Google Drive to download them to the school computer and would do it in such a random order that I couldn't get any work done. Dropbox downloaded the files really fast. I guess because I wasn't making huge changes, I never noticed the slow(er) upload speed. It only came to my attention when I tried to add my 986MB folder of knitting pattern PDFs last night. And what makes me so determined to get this folder working on Dropbox is that I have very little school stuff living on my Dropbox and that would need to be accessed at school. My favorite knitting app works with Dropbox to keep your place in your pattern and I wanted to try it. So much for that idea... I should have just stuck with my original method of emailing the files to myself and opening them on the app on my iPad. Clearly, it's much faster.

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