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brtmix
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Very Slow Upload Speeds even after of the trouble shooting on the forum.

Hi,   I've been working directly in my dropbox folder for a while now.  Everything was fine until a couple months ago and not uploads are crawling. With speedtest.net my speed is always just ...
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brtmix
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Megan I just tried a VPN and my speed in the DB App did not improve at all.

 

My ISP is spectrum in case that's useful.

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invalidation
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I'm not even sure if it is the ISP in my case; I'm still seeing throttling when not connected to VPN through a different ISP.  It seems to be some issue with the dropbox application.  Using other methods to upload files works perfectly fine.  The dropbox application just seems to throttle whenever I'm not connected through a VPN (?????)

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