11/13/2022 0 Comments Dropbox download speeds![]() ![]() Dropbox was able to “magically” upload huge files that I had never put in my account before. However, in my testing, the files I uploaded were were not shared with anyone, and they were not public. This is brilliant, because I’m sure it saves them huge amounts of bandwidth and disk resources. There’s no need to waste the bandwidth (and presumably, the disk space in Dropbox’s cloud) for that second upload. ![]() So if user A uploads a big file, and later, user B uploads the SAME file, then Dropbox recognizes that. Here’s a screencast showing this in action (without sound):ĭropbox exposed from Jeremy Seitz on Vimeo.įrom what I can tell, Dropbox calculates and remembers the unique fingerprints of files. Was it compression? Maybe delayed uploads? What I found was that certain large files uploaded almost immediately, while others took hours. How was Drobox able to upload so damn quickly? I tested this again several times using various large files (music, movies, whatever). I then went to download that file from a different computer, and sure enough, the whole file came down, in tact. When I copied a large disk image to my Dropbox, within a few seconds, it had finished uploading: “All Files up to date.” Ok, I have a pretty good connection, but it seemed impossible that I could somehow upload hundreds of megabytes in just a few seconds. ![]() I love being able to share files with friends and co-workers with such ease.īut recently I noticed something a bit surprising. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |