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Dropbox LAN Sync: How fast is it really?

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whyrichard

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Aug 15, 2002
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Hello,

I am thinking of moving our business to Dropbox for Business.

One concern I have is speed. How fast is dropbox LAN Syncing really? Especially when compared to Writing a file to, and then reading the same file from the Server?

Thanks,
r.
 
It's pretty much only limited by the speed of your network. The detection of changes is nearly instantaneous. In my experience, small document changes sync within a second or two of being saved by someone else, and larger documents just take as long as it would have to copy the files from one computer to another (which makes sense, since that's all it's doing). The point of Dropbox is having access to your files on several devices and via the web, and sharing documents across a team, while being able to also work offline at times. It's a different value proposition than a centralized file server.
 
It's very limited thats why i switched to Copy. Have you tried them out? Give them a try:



Their upload speeds are fast and even the downloads. I dont think they have business plans though yet. They do have mobile apps so that was a plus for me n
 
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On my Gigabit network the highest I remember seeing the reported transfer speed go is 1.3MB/sec.

Yes, Megabytes not bits. Doesn't seem to max out the network or disk it's stored on.
 
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