Onedrive's downloading speed is tremendously slow

Anonymous
2023-12-25T08:19:57+00:00

Hi everyone,

I'm confused by the fact of Onedrive's downloading speed to be very slow. I'm trying to download my video file from Onedrive and the speed is 1 MB/s only, having internet channel speed 100 mbps. Download speed from competitor's servers (Mega.nz, FREE Plan) is 10 MB/s, which utilizes my whole channel. The funny thing is that the upload speed was 10 MB/s to Onedrive's servers, but the download speed is only 1 MB/s.

I've removed any limits on download speed in Onedrive app, updated the app, changed TCP congestion protocol to BBR, but the result is the same.

Attaching here the pictures:
Onedrive download speed

Mega.nz download speed

Speed test (Microsoft)

Speed test (Ookla)

I'm quite aware of other complaints on Onedrive's download speed, but still hope for a resolution. I've sent my question to Onedrive's tech team, but here I'm posting to:

  1. Get more ideas on how to solve this issue
  2. Attract more attention to the problem

Onedrive app version for Windows 64: 23.246.1127.0002

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-13T21:19:01+00:00

    HA! Best response yet.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-13T21:23:41+00:00

    I am not sure it has been mentioned here, but I see people comparing MB to mbps or MBs. They are not the same.

    Internet speeds are usually measured in mbps, mega BITs per second.

    Some files are measured in MB, which is Mega BYTES.

    1 MB = 8 mb as 1 MegaByte = 8 Megabits . (This is approximately as technically it should be 1024 to 1000.

    I agree that OneDrive download is slow, but comparing mbps to MBps is not valid.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-18T07:10:58+00:00

    It seems like no one is paying attention to the fact that the download speed is extremely slow. I have been trying to download my entire OneDrive for days, but the speed remains stuck at just 0.8 MB/s. If I stop the synchronization and restart it, the speed briefly increases to 1-2 MB/s, but with my 200 MB/s connection, I would expect much better performance. Other services like Google Drive, FTP servers, and Apple Cloud have no such issues, which confirms that my connection is not the problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-18T20:55:43+00:00

    i use the vbs script to stop and start over again. so i keep getting at least 6-7 MB/s for about 10 minutes

    Dim objShell <br><br>Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") <br><br> <br><br>Do <br><br> WScript.Sleep 480000 <br><br> objShell.Run "powershell -Command ""Stop-Process -Name 'OneDrive' -Force""", 0, True <br><br> WScript.Sleep 5000 <br><br> objShell.Run "powershell -Command ""Start-Process 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\OneDrive.exe'""", 0, True <br><br>Loop <br><br> <br><br>Set objShell = Nothing

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-01T22:41:18+00:00

    I have the same issue. And, the response from Microsoft might as well have said, it's not their problem. My hunch is they intentionally slow download speeds, so copying and removing your content is substantially more inconvenient for the user, sustainably lowering their cancelation rate. I mean, it is the same reason you can't click 1 button to select everything and then select download, and you have to outsmart the system or individually select every item separately. While, these tactics are rather shady and distasteful, it is their platform so they can make it a slow as they want to. If I am wrong, I hope someone from mircosoft can offer a better explanation. My speed tests say i can download 100x - 200x faster than what onedrive is currently downloading at 1-2mbps.

    Hello Joseph,

    In your case you can select all the folders file together, and just untick the OneNote file from the list. then you will see the download option.

    However I have same download speed issue, it has started since beginning of the November. Before that i was able to download the folders up to 15 MB ps. but now it is literally downloading in KB´s or Bites.

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