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one drive syncing is too much slow
The limits are easy to find (Google "OneDrive limits") and are published here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa
Mike Williams Bandwidth is very important but I think that what many people don't think about is how quickly the bandwidth can be used up if many people are syncing many files. A 500 MB file may not seem large but if it changes and 10 people are syncing that file it becomes 5 GB of data through your internet and local network. Multiply that by dozens of files and you start wondering where all your bandwidth has gone.
I suspect that many people have problems with OneDrive because of the way they are trying to use it. They seem to think that if syncing a few files is good then syncing all files must be better. Besides the wasted bandwidth and inevitable glitches from trying to have everyone sync everything, it is a huge security risk having many copies of important files on many different computers in various locations.
Back in the old days when we had all our files on local fileservers we would never have considered keeping a local copy of all files on each computer and IT would have put a halt to that pretty quickly. Now that we have syncing tools many people think they should be syncing everything.
There are two totally different problems here: some people complain about slow upload speed, other people about slow sync speed. I belong to the latter ones. I pasted a 300 KB PDF in a SharePoint folder, and it took 6 minutes to turn green. Until it was green, the file was not available on the web either. I can reproduce it every upload I do. My Internet connection has no issues at all. So it's a OneDrive client issue that needs to be investigated. Most of my SharePoint files are blue (only available through cloud connection), while 40,000 files are green in my OneDrive.
Microsoft, let my computer be your guinea-pig, we all need to fix this issue.- " I think that what many people don't think about is how quickly the bandwidth can be used up if many people are syncing many files."
Bandwidth is relative. I have worked in organisations where many thousands of people were using Office 365 yet the sync/download speed to the cloud is astoundingly fast because of the fantastic internet gateway. - I agree. One place where I worked had a department that force-synched their entire SharePoint site library to everyone's computers. They had 25 years' of files: 400 top-level folders, 100K files taking up over 100GB. Because they wanted to use SharePoint like a synced file-server they lost many of the benefits of using the cloud-based service.
Another place had staff syncing 400K individual files to their laptop. And so it goes on.... almost always it comes down to a complete lack of training and any planning around the migration from file servers to document libraries. John Twohig I use 2.500 MBit only for my Computer. I have Not many Files and sync ist very slow changing or creating a single File with some KByte.
Your Idea ist completely wrong. It is a Onedrive problem.
- If you have Antivirus or other similar client services running then that can have an ENORMOUS effect on your sync speed.
- No Change with disabled AV
