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I just added a folder with some pictures and videos (~80 MB) to my Dropbox folder. Dropbox started syncing, and the "speed for browsing" dropped to unusable (DNS resolving pretty slow, websites loaded very slow or not loaded at all).

So I ran tracert to a couple of hosts and while Dropbox was syncing the reply time was between 2500ms and 3500ms or the hosts were unreachable. When I paused the Dropbox sync, the reply time almost immediately dropped to the usual 50-100ms.

Auto-limiting the Dropbox upload "improved" the reply times of tracert to 1500ms, but browsing was still painful.

I didn't experience this behavior in the past (or I didn't correlate slow internet to Dropbox sync), however I recently replaced my old Fritzbox 7170 router with a new Fritzbox 3370 (which should have at least much faster WiFi).

Any suggestions, which settings I should check?

I use cable (Kabel BW, Germany) for internet with 10Mbps download rate.

Simon
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So I limited the Dropbox upload (as mentioned auto-limiting did not help) and now browsing is possible again.

I still wonder why this didn't happen in the past, maybe earlier versions of the Dropbox client (currently I'm using 2.5) limited the upload better.

Simon
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