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Dropbox and Data
Finding that my expectations for internet are high. I use a ton of data for school, and my wife uses a ton for work. it has been a little over two years for us on Hughesnet. Now the first year was a ...
Rob, they are aware of the Dropbox issue, and hopefully working on it. Other things are failing too.
The thought in some quarters is that it's an issue with the internet backbone, which is provided by CenturlyLink,and may be affecting the pathways between our individual user sites and the HN servers. It's really not on your side, and there's really nothing you can do at the moment. Several of us are experiencing the same issues and have provided HN with a list of the sites that aren't working for us.
*I am not a Hughesnet employee or representative. This is a customer-to-customer tech support community, and I am a customer.
It usually works for me during off hours, then it stops. Ditto for Google Drive.
Your access may stop as more people around the country get on the network, so use it while the connection lasts.
Do you have it on your computer? This would allow you to work on your documents, and they would update your online account when the connection works.
*I am not a Hughesnet employee or representative. This is a customer-to-customer tech support community, and I am a customer.
jbrewer wrote:As of this morning, 4/7, DROPBOX is working!!
Dropbox working on my Mac this morning (the app and website versions).
My wife is on Windows laptop and can access Google Drive too (she is a teacher so this is big relief).
Thank you to HughesNet and upstream folks to get this fixed! Fingers crossed this is 100% resolved!
Right now both are working for me too. Yesterday both worked until around noon, then they both stopped working. They returned later, around 10pm.
Dorman1993 wrote:
Dropbox working on my Mac this morning (the app and website versions).
My wife is on Windows laptop and can access Google Drive too (she is a teacher so this is big relief).
Thank you to HughesNet and upstream folks to get this fixed! Fingers crossed this is 100% resolved!
Hi folks,
Thank you for confirming, glad to see this!
-Liz
12:30 PM
Google Drive: check!
Dropbox: check!
YouTube: check!
iCloud: being a total rotter
