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I've started using dropbox but I'm finding that my upload speeds are dropping down to the withering pace of 6Kbs sec, I've checked my upload speed with speedtest.net and I get just under 1Mbs. Is this a common experience, or is it because I'm located in Australia? | |||||||
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Check your Preferences. By default, Dropbox doesn't limit download speed, but limits upload speed to 10kb/s.
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The up/down speeds depend on many different variables. Please see Why is my internet so slow? for detailed explanations. As for your question, it's not a common experience. I just tested a 5 mb file and it uploaded just fine, i.e. using the full upload bandwidth. You can also check status of Dropbox to see if there's any current problems with servers, locations, app etc. | |||||
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It's my experience also, so I moved to Wuala. From my experience Dropbox seems to slow down the speed when you have a lot of files to download (f.e. when you have a new PC that has to download the complete storage once). F.e. when I have to sync only 2-3 files then I get "normal" speeds of 700-800Kb/s. If the number of files to download are f.e. 30.000 then it's slows down to 10-60Kb/s. So it seems like Dropbox is saying "oh you have to download a lot, let's bring down your speed otherwise our server will be tired ..." | |||
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For what it's worth, there seem to be a number of users who experience slow upload speeds with Dropbox (myself included). That's not to say it's necessarily DB's fault, or that other services might not have similar issues, but there does appear to be something going on here. | |||
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