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Jun 25, 2019

Slow OneDrive Upload Speed

Do you guys remember the Microsoft demo where they showed how much faster the OneDrive upload was compared to other cloud storage providers. Apparently this is no longer the case. I have had users re...

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Ash365

Brass Contributor

Jul 01, 2019

Ryan Schouten

Please make sure your OneDrive speeds are not throttled. On your workstation, find the OneDrive icon on the bottom right > Right click > Settings > select Network tab > Make sure 'Dont Limit' is checked.

let me know if you have any questions.

-Ash

DevGupta05

Copper Contributor

Dec 21, 2020

Ash365 Even after changing the settings to no limit, it's still not working. The upload speed is still mostly around 20-30Mbps while I have a connection of 200Mbps. Can anyone help me and provide me with a better solution

sometechguy
Copper Contributor
Jan 22, 2021
same experience here. Just upgraded to 1 gigabit fios and confirmed the speed using speed tests. Uploaded a 4 gig gopro clip and monitored network traffic and saw that while there are some bursts of 500mbps most of the time the upload speed is <20mbps. upload took 5 min vs dropbox 2min

this is not including the time it took to "process changes" before the upload happened (3 min)
- Rob Nicholson
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 23, 2021
  I'm uploading loads of PST files today and it's taking forever. SharePoint and OneDrive speed is never good. It's okay most of the time when you're doing normal Office editing etc. but really struggles when you've got a big file to upload.