dropbox slow on ubuntu 14.04

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

EDIT:

donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$ apt-cache policy dropbox
dropbox:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$ 


donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$ apt-cache policy nautilus-dropbox
nautilus-dropbox:
  Installed: 1.6.1-1
  Candidate: 1.6.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.1-1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
donbeo@donbeo-HP-EliteBook-Folio-9470m:~$

EDIT: Without the need of any changes dropbox is now working well. I think that the problem has probably been solved with an update or something.

If someone is still having this problem and wants to know my version of dropbox or other details I am happy to help.

Other people are having this problem. Check this thread in Dropbox forum.

There is a workaround that worked for me that is using Dropbox through a proxy. I recommend a private proxy for security reasons.

Here are instructions on how to setup a proxy using AWS. Then setup Dropbox to use the proxy and your files should start synching again.

The problem was probably inside the dropbox server. Now everything is working well with the dropbox version from the repository

dropbox slow on ubuntu 14.04

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