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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 saying its going to take 2+ days because it's uploading at 20kbps. Even comcast is faster then this.
I've already set the app to use unlimited bandwith and it hasn't helped. Dropbox is pretty easy to use, but if this is the fastest I can upload, dropbox is going to get dropped.
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.
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i love u man, thanx
The solution (for me) was restore windows. Hope this helps someone else too.
The upload speed of dropbox is very very slow, I've gone thru several posts here that mention about the same but dropbox support always return generic responses implying they're throttled by ISP, firewall settings etc. but thats totally wrong. Below is my internet speed, S3, google drive, one drive, all work very fast when it comes to uploads, I suspect something is wrong from dropbox side and they're not fixing it. I also set the upload limit to do not limit it dropbox preferences, nothing just helps.
- Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey anaganisk, I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with this!
If you haven't already, please check out this thread as there are some additional suggestions that might just do the trick for you.
Let me know how it goes!
No I dont think it helps, I tried and nothign changed. Like I said only dropbox has this issue, Gdrive or onedrive dont have any such issues.
Temporary fix!!!
I've also got a 1Gbps fiber connection and get 600mbps on wifi, dropbox upload is incredibly slow for uploading mass data with thousands of small files we're talking about 50mb in 1 hour, it's going to take days if not weeks to sync 2Tb and my Mac's fan is going crazy.
No restriction on bandwidth and have also tried hard-wired ethernet directly into the router.
I've been trawling through the forums and this seems to be a common problem and there are screenshots of direct speed tests with Google Drive and other cloud storage, on the same set-up and DropBox clearly has a problem.
However, I've also found a fix, use File Zilla for incredible direct upload/download into DB, you can have 10 threads uploading in parallel and now I can see GBs uploading in realtime.
Please please get this sorted DB as there's a bottleneck somewhere.
MacOS Catalina
16 inch Macbook Pro2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
64 GB, 4TB SSD
AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB
So it seems like I'm not the only one. Tested also uploading files to Google Drive. It was WAAAAAAY faster.
The people having problems with uploads - are you using a browser to upload or using the dropbox app/folder to upload?
I'm using the MacOS app
