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

Maximum download and upload speeds

I'm setting up a new computer and syncing my dropbox business account to it. The internet connection is great on fiber optic cable (1500MB/s) but my download speeds on dropbox are about 24MB/sec

What is the maximum anyone else is getting? 

How can I improve this?

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    6 years ago

    That won't do you any good. There are so many things that affect speed that you could have two people with an identical setup and still have wildly different speeds. Your computer, your local network, your ISP, the route your traffic takes to get to Dropbox, the Dropbox network and servers, congestion along any part of the route to Dropbox, throttling by your ISP (very common), failures along the route that cause your traffic to take another path, etc.

    Simply put, there is no expected speed. You get whatever speed you're capable of given all the factors above, and many others.

  • wirasandi's avatar
    wirasandi
    New member | Level 2

    Hi, Sorry to chime in on a 5 years old thread.


    I had the same problem (I found this thread while trying to find the solution), and somehow managed to solve it by using VPN.
    If I don't use VPN, my DL speed were 5-7MBps.

    I'm on a 250mbps FO, so that DL speed doesn't comes anywhere near my ISP service.
    Turned on my VPN and instantly my DL speed goes to 29-30MBps.

     

    Maybe VPN will be a solution to anyone experincing the same problem as me.

     

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

    It depends TOTALLY upon your own set up - so nobody else can give any sort of comparison. 

    What I would say though is that it will speed up once the initial folder creation is completed and it gets on to larger files. Dropbox sync's smallest -> largest and as smallest has the most overheads these are slowest to download.

    • chrismo's avatar
      chrismo
      Helpful | Level 6

      That doesn't help me much - I can't believe downloads can be this slow. I've got a fast computer and just about the fastest internet that you can get and I'm still only getting 20MB/s. What are the fastest speeds other people are getting?

      • LP_DB's avatar
        LP_DB
        Helpful | Level 5

        Hi Chrismo. 

         

        I also have a fast connection, and always get the advertised Gigabit speeds uploading and downloading. Except with dropbox.

        My uploads and downloads cap out at 13.5MBps. 

        Dropbox suggested that this is an ISP issue, but have contacted them and they confirmed that in no way do they restrict dropbox traffic at all. 

         

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