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Festernaecus's avatar
Festernaecus
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

My internet connection is blindingly fast. Why is Dropbox moving at the speed of a crippled slug?

Title says it all. My connection is wired. My UL speed is around 800mbps at this moment. 

It's taken **bleep** near a half an hour to upload a measly 2.79gb. 

Yeah so WTF

3 Replies

  • Carter2204's avatar
    Carter2204
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 months ago

    They are also being sued by entangled since 2022 for basically stealing the entire Dropbox tech on cloud sharing I just found that out 

  • Carter2204's avatar
    Carter2204
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 months ago

    Two days ago it took me 3 hours to upload a 2.02 gb file to dropbox

    i have 25mbps at home

    dropbox speed was approx 0.15 mbps

    dropbox are intentioanlly gating speeds

    ive read others using a vpn to say they are in a different region can get past Dropbox’s deliberate rules to gate a region and make it slow

     

  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    10 months ago

    Thanks for your post, Festernaecus.

    Can you clarify the current app version of your Dropbox app? 

    If you restart your device and attempt to add a small file via the Dropbox app again, is it still taking a long time for it to upload?

    Let me know. 

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