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merk
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago
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Ridiculously slow upload speeds

I've tried uploading through the website and using the windows app.  In both cases I'm lucky if i get 1/100 of what my actual upload limit is. I'm trying to upload about 4gb worth of files and it's s...
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  • merk's avatar
    merk
    6 years ago

    I think I found a solution for myself. I noticed that on my laptop, on the same network as my PC, even if connected via wifi, i was getting faster speeds. Did some googling and I found a network setting that when i adjusted it, improved my network speeds overall.

    If you open a command prompt with admin priviledges, run the command

    netsh interface tcp dump 

    is autotuninglevel=disabled? if so try this

    netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

    then try uploading or downloading and see if you get better results.

merk's avatar
merk
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

take a look at my post at the top of page 2 - it solved the issue for me.  Or i guess i should say it improved the issue ;) it's still not nearly as fast as uploading to some other services. But I'm getting anywhere between 100 mbps and 200 mbps which is a lot better then what I was getting before.

JDD1's avatar
JDD1
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

merk - thanks, but I'm on a Mac so I'm not sure that is the same?

 

  • merk's avatar
    merk
    Helpful | Level 6
    6 years ago

    JDD1 oh sorry, not sure if there is an equivalent settings for the mac

    • Brisinghamen's avatar
      Brisinghamen
      New member | Level 2
      6 years ago

      I am on a mac running 10.14.6

       

      I have the same problem.

      I used to be able to collaborate across Europe with colleauges dropping files in and they would upload / download overnight.

      We can no longer do this as the file upload times have increased enormously.

      My Upload speed is around 700kb/s.

      I have tested the system using online speed testerts and I should be able to achieve upload of around 5MB/s

      So Ihave less than 10% of what is available.

       

      I have set Bandwidth to dont limit for both upload and download.

      I have installed the latest software and have reset permissions several times.

       

      I cant see any other istructions online for what might be a solution.

      Please help so I can get back to work.

       

      Thanks.

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