---
id: backups.why-does-my-backup-say-waiting-for-a-faster-connection
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/backups/why-does-my-backup-say-waiting-for-a-faster-connection
category: "Backups & restore points"
subcategory: "When backups run"
question: "Why does my backup say \"Waiting for a faster connection\"?"
alt_questions:
  - "backup too slow to finish"
  - "cloud backup won't start slow internet"
  - "Waiting for a faster connection Storage Studio"
  - "backup checks my upload speed"
short_answer: "Storage Studio tests your upload speed before an automatic cloud backup. If it's far too slow to finish, it waits, shows the speed and tries later. Back up now always starts regardless."
tags: ["slow", "network", "cloud"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/backups/why-is-my-backup-waiting", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/backups/why-is-my-first-cloud-backup-taking-hours"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# Why does my backup say "Waiting for a faster connection"?

Before an automatic cloud backup starts, Storage Studio measures your upload speed with a small test. If the connection is too slow for a backup to realistically finish — well under a megabit per second — it holds the automatic run and tells you the speed it measured, instead of crawling for days.

It tries again later on its own. If you want to go ahead anyway, press **Back up now** — a backup you start yourself is never blocked. The test is small and its result is reused for a few hours, so it doesn't eat your bandwidth.