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Why is my Dropbox upload speed so slow?
Hello guys, does anyone facing problem with slow uploading to Dropbox?
I'm using 1Gbps connection uploading speed max around 3Mb/s, compared with Google Drive with my connection up to 80Mb/s.
Already tried upload via Dropbox web, Dropbox Apps, Cyberduck, Zoom Uploader and all speed still same.
Transferring 16TB data from Google Drive using Multcloud also average speed around 3Mb/s. Dropbox really capped limit or what? Seriously in 2018 with that speed?
- Click the Dropbox icon from the menu bar.
- Click the :gear: icon and select Preferences... from the menu.
- Click Sync :arrows_counterclockwise:.
- Choose your work Dropbox account.
- Change the selection for Smart Sync Default to the last option:
- Admin default: the default setting chosen by your team admin.
- Local: all new content downloads to your computer.
- Online-only: manually download files to your computer when you need them.
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- Mark
Super User II
There is no cap at Dropbox's end, but, that does not mean there are not caps elsewhere.
What is worth noting, however, is that uploads are always very slow with Dropbox initially because it uploads files smallest -> largest after its recreated the directory structure. Because it individually has checks every file it means the overheads can be quite intense. Once it gets to larger files it hash checks each file in 4mb blocks which help speed up the process.- So, because of "hash checks each file in 4mb blocks" upload speed limit to 4Mb/s?
- Mark
No, there is no limit. It just slows things down initially as there are overheads on checking each file.
I can quite easily upload movies of a few GB here in a couple of minutes, but, thats because everything else is already sync'd and so the overheads are low.
Have a look at https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/faster-sync
