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Slow OneDrive Upload Speed
Why it is so slow?
I have resisted so long moving from Microsoft to Apple.
This past few months running Office 365 Business Premium has finally convinced me.
Only too often.... I try to simply move 5 or 6 files (no larger than 1 GB) from one folder to another on my super fast desktop... and it hangs... and hangs.. up to 5 minutes at times.
I am starting to investigate prices for a good fast Apple machine as OneDrive for Business is a joke... and no obvious efforts by Microsoft to fix this.
I am guessing that this is being caused by 2 things.
1 is a bottle neck on Microsoft Servers where they store all the OneDrive for Business Premium files.
2 is the badly written OneDrive code that prevents the local computer from simply doing the job... and just queuing the changes needed to be applied to the OneDrive files on the internet.
Is there nobody driving the Microsoft vision or customer care?
- >Is there nobody driving the Microsoft vision or customer care?
Considering how many flaws are reported with OneDrive in many different forums, it would appear not. - Hay DaveIrl, I know this post was from awhile ago, I found it trying to solve somthing else. If your still having this problem try using the app "Everything" https://everything.en.softonic.com/download . I use it all the time as I have multiple cloud storages and drives, I think it only searche locally. Ither way it is extremely fast I see the results pop up as I type them. You just click the icon in your task bar. Had to comment this as it's a life changer for me. Hope this helps.
How exactly Everything app (which I use for many years) helps with the OneDrive slow upload?
>Why it is so slow?
I've just tested uploading a 198MB RAR file (so already compressed) on my home internet connection. OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive are about the same:
OneDrive: 1m 26s
Dropbox: 1m 25s
Google Drive: 1m 32s
However, on my home cable connection, upload speed is "only" 22Mbps so plugging 198MB and 22Mbps into file transfer calculator (https://techinternets.com/copy_calc ) it shows that the expected time is 1ms 19s.
What will be interesting is if I do the same on my client's internet connection where they get much faster speeds. Later...
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...
- I do have to say that in my instance Microsoft was very responsive and we were able to pretty much resolve the slowness problem. I would say anyone that is having issues open a support ticket with Microsoft. With our ticket Microsoft was able to identify a couple issues in the farm our tenant is in and resolved those issues.
