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NeilEvansRocks's avatar
NeilEvansRocks
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Upload Speed Issue

For the last few hours my MacOS client has been having issues uploading: the upload speeds are ludicrously slow to non-existent, the timer swings wildly from a few seconds to hours trying to upload a...
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tscott123
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I know I'm a year late to this, but I had this same issue and using a VPN (NordVPN in my case) allowed me to get the blazing fast fiber speeds. It appears that despite saying they don't, my fiber company was throttling dropbox.com. Try it and see...

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