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Hello,

i am having a poor slow Download Speed from my cloud.

I have Internet Connection with

102.781 kbit/s Download

41.998 kbit/s Upload

The speedtest results from https://cloud-wr-ru2.acronis.com/speedtest/ are almost at 80Mbps.

I've uploaded some test files in a public folder to my cloud on various Acronis servers.

Please can you check out wich download speed others have ?

Here are the links :

http://cloud-wr-eu2.acronis.com/links/211A8AB45F95D6AFB85EB75F8A6AC862

http://cloud-wr-eu1.acronis.com/links/211A8AB45F95D6AFB85EB75F8A6AC862

http://cloud-wr-us1.acronis.com/links/211A8AB45F95D6AFB85EB75F8A6AC862

http://cloud-wr-us2.acronis.com/links/211A8AB45F95D6AFB85EB75F8A6AC862

http://cloud-wr-ru2.acronis.com/links/211A8AB45F95D6AFB85EB75F8A6AC862

 

 

 

 

 

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There can be many reasons for poor download speeds most of which will be outside of the control of the Acronis servers you are accessing, assuming that you are connecting to those which are closest geographically to you.

For the Acronis Speedtest, I am given the following results to the UK.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 54423 kbps (6802.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3095 kbps (386.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 88 ms
Jitter: 1 ms
Packet Loss: -1%
03/04/2016, 13:31:57

So over 50MBps download and 3MBps upload which matches with the levels published by my ISP for the broadband connection I am paying for.

 

Unfortunately, a lot of the slowness is ISP related.  Download speed and upload speed are very different.  I have 100Mbps download and 10Mbps upload with my ISP.  I average about 5.5Mbps uploading to Acronis Cloud and that is basically inline with what speedtest.net shows for my uploads in general.  

Acronis Cloud will also be impacted by their upload ability (when you download) via their ISP.  However, I'm sure it's also capped as they don't want any one person or handful of people to saturate their bandwidth either.  This is normal practice for cloud hosted services and/or web providers because they want to make sure resources are available to all.  Just as an example - download speeds from Apple are terrible - a 1.5Gb download for an iOS update through iTunes can take 2-3 hours for me despite the large ISP download rate on my end.  Microsoft .iso downloads (grab an enterprise trial .iso from your livemail account sometime) also take longer than they should.

A good backup plan will have at least 3 tiers.  

1) Local - USB hard drive or something of the sort

2) Network or secondary local (NAS or network share on another system)

3) Offsite disaster recovery (Acronis Cloud or similar provider) 

The local backups provide the fastest backup and recovery experience, but the offsite disaster recovery provides redundancey and backup capability, although slower, in the event of a catastrophic failure at the local site (failed hardware, fire, flood, earthquake, theft, etc).