Amazon Drive upload speeds

General Discussions
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Plex Gods,

I have been using Amazon Drive for months now as a means to backup my collections. I am super excited about the Plex Cloud, it is a dream come true… Kind of. I signed up for the beta as soon as i saw it was open. I have a 50Mbps upload speed and 100 down. I have been trying for Months to upload my collection and i still do not have it all up there on Amazon Drive. The absolute best speed i have been able to manage is 600k up! My first question is this; Are any of you seeing the same upload speeds to Amazon Drive that i am seeing? My second question is: Have you taken this slow upload into consideration? It is a absolutely fantastic Idea to have Amazon Host our backups, and i have been trying to make that work for years now. But, i don’t see it as a viable solution for those of us that have more than a few HD movies. Would love to hear what others upload speeds have been to Amazon Drive and if anyone was able to work around the slow uploads. I have an 2012 iMac running Yosemite. Thanks for being so Awesome!!!

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I get a consistent 16Mbps transfer rate uploading ACD.

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In Spain with a synology NAS I upload at 35 mbps…300/300 ffth

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Where are you located? What are you using to upload? I’m in New Zealand with a 200/200 fibre connection and here’s what I’m currently getting with rclone:

Transferred:   982.685 GBytes (6.054 MBytes/s)
Errors:                 0
Checks:                24
Transferred:          782
Elapsed time:  46h10m3.2s
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I usually get around 2.3MB/s which pretty much maxes my connections upload speed.

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Im located in Ohio, USA. I am on Comcast. I wonder what is slowing me down???

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Maybe my issue is I’m using Amazon’s uploader?

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@cptmrgn said:
Maybe my issue is I’m using Amazon’s uploader?

I would look at other tools like rclone.org

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@hthighway said:

@cptmrgn said:
Maybe my issue is I’m using Amazon’s uploader?

I would look at other tools like rclone.org

@hthighway thanks for pointing me to rclone recently. It works really well.

I get 16-18mbps upstream. Downstream from ACD I think my max sustained is about 68mbps or so.

My connection is 200mbps/20mbps down/up respectively.

It’s hard to beat how easy rclone is and the speed at which it works.

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Setting up rclone now!! Thanks for the tips

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I get 1.5 up with rclone??? At least that is double what i was getting.

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@cptmrgn said:
Im located in Ohio, USA. I am on Comcast. I wonder what is slowing me down???

Just as an FYI, my guess is you’re looking at about a 5M upload speed. The thing of it is, they’re talking about bits, not bytes. Your rates are just gonna suck. I’ve got the same issue with Time Warner.

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Go to http://speedof.me/ and verify you are actually getting the speeds you are signed up for. You should be able to max out your connection.

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Any suggestion on how to setup uploading when media is on external drive? I haven’t tried with amazon yet but Dropbox puts a folder on internal hard drive

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speedof.me speedtest is 95.91 down and 12.9 up. So i should be getting at least 4 or 5 up right? Im guessing i have a bottleneck somewhere on my system.

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@Wpcrumbley said:
Any suggestion on how to setup uploading when media is on external drive? I haven’t tried with amazon yet but Dropbox puts a folder on internal hard drive

I just created a folder in all of my external drives and moved the media to those folders to facilitate the uploads to Amazon. I can always move the media back to the root of the drive after the upload is completed.

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I hit between 160-230mbps upload to Amazon from a gigabit fiber home connection using rclone. Maxed out ~ 100mbps using the ACD branded app.

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In Spain Movistar 300/300 FTTH 35MB/s.

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It is definitely an issue with my Home computer!! I tried to upload a few movies from my work account (500up and 500down) and I am getting 60MB/S up! I will try uploading using a different (more powerful computer) tonight and see if that makes a difference. hopefully that will help me determine if it is the computer or the internet provider.