Slow OneDrive Upload Speed

Hmm, now this is very interesting. I've just tried the same 198MB file transfer on a laptop which has an upload speed of 666Mbps. Here are the results:

OneDrive: 30s

Dropbox: 6s (yes, I timed it three times just to make sure)

Google Drive: 44s

The raw file transfer speed should be about 2 seconds so Dropbox really shines here being five times faster than OneDrive and seven times faster than Google Drive.

Now I could accept Google Drive being slower because that is using a free account and maybe they don't give those accounts the full possible speed.

But OneDrive is a paid for Microsoft 365 account so 30s is pretty poor. 

What this shows is that at lower connectivity speeds,maybe found a home, OneDrive is limited by your upload speed but once you get into faster business connections, OneDrive hasn't got the bandwidth.

So another feather in Dropbox's cap as that's also a free account.

BTW - an upload time of ~30s corresponds to a throughput of ~50Mbps so OneDrive really is slow...