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My Internet speed is awful. Browsing, the works. Does Dropbox affect internet line speed because of the constant updating of the info in your Dropbox?

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In the Dropbox preferences, you can specify upper limits on the upload and download bandwidth. – sblair Oct 27 '11 at 12:21
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The only time you'll get stress on your link from dropbox is when is actually syncing files.

If you have a lot of dropbox activity (near constant) then it could, but it is difficult to imagine what you could be doing that would make it continually upload.

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If the syncing does cause problems, there are options in preferences to limit the bandwidth usage. – sgmoore Oct 27 '11 at 12:19
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Nope. It only does LAN discovery by default. That's the only traffic I've seen from Dropbox with Wireshark. I guess it also checks the server connection, once in a while. But that's also, just a bit of a traffic.

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I'm pretty sure that, by default, Dropbox syncs with the remote server. The LAN sync is just a bonus that can sometimes help reduce the amount of data transferred to/from the remote server. – sblair Oct 27 '11 at 14:56
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