Onedrive's downloading speed is tremendously slow

What the hell is this?! Are we some kind of random victims to their faithful customers?

It worked well until this week. I could download everything in seconds...now in the past 2 days I am struggling to find the issue if it's something from my side.

But I have tried different networks, different PCs, laptops...i don't have and never had any restrictions on the download speed by the Onedrive app.

I am struggling to download a 60MB folder, waiting more than half an hour because it is "calculating" first. Even if I try to download from the Browser one drive it is the same :|

What in the name of fks is this after they jumped my price this month from 6£ to 8£ to have these issues now?!

Same issue here. It should %100 be solved by Microsoft's end. My internet speed is 1000Mbps and Onedrive download speed is max 2Mbps!!

Questions like "Is it the same with other platforms? Did you try it with your mobile internet?" are insulting for us. We live in 2025 please fix this..

Edit:

Using a VPN increased my download speed. Strange but yeah.

This doesn't make you look smart. It is demonstrably complete and utter nonsense to think that MS doesn't have just as much bandwidth available as other cloud storage providers. Yet.... <10mbps for OneDrive.

I want to do the same thing, OneDrive is a pain! Very slow! I'm going to stop using it! I advise everyone to do the same!

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.

exactly! i have around 400GB on my 1TB onedrive storage, i was paying them for a few years by now but now im gonna cancel it just because of the slow download speeds, i download everything i dont care how long it will take ill keep my pc 24/7 but it will be worth it. ill transfer everything to google drive and hope they don't use this BS method.