Jack42 on "Extremely Slow Backup"

I can confirm that idrive is insanely slow.
I have a 1TB account, and I've been backing up 600GB so far over several weeks.
It's uploading at 240 kB/s, and the upload speed test says 3.3 Mb/s (which is 412 kB/s).
So the speed test is faster than the backup upload (almost 2x), but in both cases it's dead slow.
I have 20 Mb/s upload speed (verified with speedtest.net at 19-21 Mb/s).
I've backed up several TB (including the same data using the same PC/hard drive) to other backup services MUCH faster (basically maxing out my upload speed).
Blaming "network congestion" on all upload speed issues is just wrong.
The only time upload speed can be legitimately slow, is if you upload many small files, and it becomes bound by the speed of the hard disk. But here even 100MB files are maxed out at ~240 kB/s.
The service is overall not bad, the software is fine other than that. But on speed, yeah, it's very slow.