dropbox slow on ubuntu 14.04

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Published on 2014-08-23T12:33:34Z Indexed on 2014/08/25 16:28 UTC
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My dropbox syncing is incredibly slow...
I am using dropbox from the ubuntu repository on an almost fresh ubuntu installation.

I would like to avoid to install the package from the dropbox website for the reasons explained here Dropbox Upgrade

Is someone having the same problem? How can I solve?

EDIT :

This is an example of what I get.

donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$ dropbox status
Syncing (17 files remaining, 22 secs left)
Uploading 17 files (123.3 KB/sec, 22 secs left)
donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$ dropbox status
Syncing (17 files remaining, 3 mins left)
Uploading 17 files (13.2 KB/sec, 3 mins left)
donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$ dropbox status
Syncing (17 files remaining, 5 mins left)
Uploading 17 files (8.2 KB/sec, 5 mins left)
donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$ dropbox status
Syncing (17 files remaining)
Uploading 17 files...
donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$ dropbox status
Syncing (17 files remaining)
Uploading 17 files...
donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$

EDIT: I have run sudo dropbox update so I am probably using the last version of dropbox

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