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sphereofnoform
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5 months ago
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What are the bandwidth limits for sharing high-traffic files of large size?

I'll be uploading a zip to Dropbox within the next few days that is ~900MB-1GB. Within the first week it should see around 200-300 downloads, and in the first day possibly 100. While I'll have mirror...
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    Dell_Dropbox
    5 months ago

    Hey there sphereofnoform​ welcome to the forum. 

    Bandwidth limits for Dropbox accounts

    Dropbox has established the following bandwidth limits for accounts:

    • Dropbox Basic: 20 GB of bandwidth and up to 100,000 file downloads per day.
    • Dropbox Plus, Family, Professional, Essentials, Standard, and Business: 1 TB of bandwidth and unlimited file downloads per day.
    • Dropbox Advanced, Business Plus, and Enterprise: 4 TB of bandwidth and unlimited file downloads per day.
    • Trials for Dropbox Standard, Advanced, Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise: 20 GB of bandwidth and up to 100,000 file downloads per day.
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sphereofnoform
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

Thanks all, I'll be keeping an eye on it to ensure I don't exceed the limit. In which case I could switch out the download link for some period of time.

What I like especially about this platform, is that I have the ability to set up a link where the user isn't redirected to another page and instead it downloads immediately.

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Mark
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5 months ago
sphereofnoform wrote:

I'll be keeping an eye on it to ensure I don't exceed the limit

Note there is no tracking available via Dropbox to do this... so you cant really do it I'm afraid. Or if you hide it via bit.ly or similar and they land on Dropbox if they go more than once direct to Dropbox you'd not see the bandwidth used. 

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    sphereofnoform
    New member | Level 2
    5 months ago

    I understand, I must have confused it whenever I was looking in plan details and found "Transfer analytics".

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