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Dropbox Sync Gobbling up Bandwidth
Hi,
I'd like to manage drop box Bandwidth usage. Any solutions?
Its currently gobbling up lots of bandwidth which maxes out my current capacity
Best
Hey Githaiga - hope this finds you well!
First step here would be to change your bandwidth settings . To do so:
- Click the Dropbox icon from the system tray or menu bar (or right-click, on Linux).
- Click the gear icon (Windows and Mac), then select Preferences…
- Click Bandwidth (Windows or Linux).
- On a Mac, click Network and then click Change settings… in the Bandwidth section.
- You can manually adjust the bandwidth settings with the button next to Limit to under the Download rate or Upload rate sections.
- Enter the rates you prefer to continue.
I hope this helps and let me know if you need anything else. Cheers!
Just wondering if there is a way to globally apply bandwidth rules to an entire team via the admin console?
I'm a team admin but cannot seem to find the option.
Regards
Leon
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey Leon - how are you today?
Even though it's not an option at the moment, I'll make sure to pass this along to our dev team for future consideration - thank you for the feedback.
I can't be sure if this is going to be implemented as this setting is device specific and members of teams are able to connect their personal accounts with their work one so in case the members have their personal accounts connected to their work ones via our desktop app, the changes you'd apply to their bandwidth settings would affect their personal accounts too (and that's something we obviously cannot allow for security purposes) unless you've chosen to prevent them from doing so (this feature is available on our Advanced and Enterprise plans).
I hope this information helps to some extent and please let me know if you have anything to add. Thank you LeonMurray!
I was trying to limit my "upload" bandwidth to prevent impacting the rest of my family (my son was trying to watch YouTube videos - a pretty heavy download use - he noticed a major degradation of function). I was trying to sync my photos from my phone to the Dropbox website, but then I realized the Dropbox app calls it the "download" bandwidth, I am not downloading to Dropbox - it's on the web. I upload file to Dropbox and download files and videos from the internet to watch or use.
Why do you guys not explain the difference in your app? When I throttled my "dropbox download" preference to 10kB/sec - I saw the sync status drop to 10KB/Sec (by hovering my mouse pointer over the Dropbox icon (with the sync icon on it).
The application could provide more guidance to aid people - or simply using the correct terminology instead of confusing people.
Greg Dieter
