No problem with the dongle sync, or with the device syncing to the Fitbit website. It's just the MFP link that's unreliable.

This happens A LOT all year long, so get used to it. Typically what happens is that the problem rolls through various groups of users, and usually not everyone at once.

But it's THE WORST from this time of year through the spring, when it can happen to all of us at once. Apparently Fitbit and/or MFP refuse to get the extra bandwidth they need for syncing with all the new devices that come online right about now. This is the time of year when a lot of people get new devices for the holidays, or purchase one for New Years resolution purposes. The sync between the two sites gets absurdly slow and unreliable because of bandwidth issues, it happens EVERY YEAR, Fitbit and MFP know about it, and do nothing. It's frustrating.

I'm in the market for a new tracker, and part of me wants to rule out all the devices that don't sync with MFP, but frankly this issue coming up over and over again -- and I see it on the Garmin and Jawbone message boards too -- tells me that if a device that doesn't sync with MFP catches my fancy, I might as well get it. The sync is just too unreliable and unsupported here.

When it's working, it's pretty much immediate. But when it's down, well…