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:

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Onedrive app version for Windows 64: 23.246.1127.0002

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-07-11T16:35:15+00:00

    It is a known fact that MS throttles the download speed. Even on their paid Sharepoint plans, the download speed is well useless. There was a public statement by Microsoft that they do throttle download speeds even to their business paid customers because of the stability of the network. That is just plain ****. I paid for the cloud to have the data there and be downloaded at max speed, or at some reasonable speed. I understand that free accounts can get limited throttled or whatever but for a paid service, it is just plain idiotic, unusable and completely unaccepted. That reason alone, was the trigger to migrate all of my customers to either google or dropbox. Full speeds, always, any time. Libre office. Not a way to treat your customers MS. But hey, nice way to loose few hundred paid licenses. Goodbye and thanx for all the fish.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-07-11T16:44:24+00:00

    Exactly!! In 20 days I'll stop paying them, never again

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-07-12T20:26:07+00:00

    Yes, Onedrive throttles downloads to 1 MB/s. It will vary between 0.5 and 1.5, but the total will average out to 1 MB/s. This is done on purpose by Microsoft to limit usage. It's unfortunate, but it's their platform, it's cheap for a reason. I still have my 1 TB Onedrive because it's included with my 365 account, but I pay for Mega.NZ storage since it's at least reasonably usable.

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