Yep, that's what I've noticed as well troutski and I think that my USB is not even 3.0, it's just 2.0 and it has an amazing speed. I have noticed that in the afternoon of weekdays the connection is faster, so possibly it also depends on other people using the network? Absurd, because I am paying for 100 MB speed.
Cloud services are as fast as your internet can get since their operating right in there. I think cloud based services is probably the future of everything but it's just not there yet. Unless we get faster internet connection whenever we go and not be crippled with the expense then the old pen and hard drive will be your best buddy.
A lot of people are starting to host their own private clouds. With the price of storage dropping, it's finally feasible for small businesses and homes to purchase large amounts of storage. Hosting your own in-house solution is often far cheaper when looking at your return on investment compared to paying for a monthly cloud hosted service - sure, your redundancy will not be nearly as robust as an actual vendor, but you also have the peace of mind that your data is truly private.
I prefer windows OneDrive myself but it has nothing to do with Dropbox itself. It would be your service provider, you might have to upgrade to something faster than what you have currently.
I use cloud services as well and i guess at times it does run painfully slow but i think that's quite normal technology wise. Everything slows down and crashes so it's fine i guess. I use dropbox as my backup in case my hardrive breaks but i only save small sized data on cloud services.
Sometimes those things are really frustrating especially if the Internet is slow. I typically resort to a flash drive, the huge microSD card in my phone, or emailing stuff to myself.
True, often times people don't realize that your standard upload speeds with most ISP's is throttled a lot more than your download speeds. Your ISP might advertise 6mbps download speeds, but in the fine print they also specify upload speeds of under 1mbps. I was actually having problems downloading the files from my cloud storage on OneDrive though, so it wasn't just uploading. I don't believe I'm being throttled any more than usual from my ISP since all my other download speeds from other sites haven't really changed. The other thing I'm getting really annoyed with, in particular with OneDrive, is it totally hogs up my computer and internet connection whenever I reboot. For several minutes nothing else on my computer can connect to the internet while OneDrive does it's initial sync up to see if any files changed on my desktop or remotely. If I am in a hurry and cannot wait around for this, I have no choice but to shut down OneDrive temporarily, then maybe turn it back on later.
