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
    2025-06-18T09:18:45+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-24T03:17:36+00:00

    I think I understand what the problem is on OneDrive's end. If you look at CPU usage its through the roof while only downloading at 2 Mbps. It seems OneDrive stores everything in a compressed format on their end which requires decompression at the same rate as the download. Reduces storage size on their end at the expense of performance on our end.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-18T01:52:29+00:00

    The only "solution" I found was using 'Internet Download Manager'. This is a paid service, but a trial version is available for those who only need it for a 30-day time period.

    https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

    It partitions the download, each with OneDrive's massive 1-3 mb/s download speed.
    These add together to create a faster download.

    Currently I am downloading a 146-gig file, partitioned into 8, with a total download speed of 20-25mb/s.

    I hope this helps someone.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-13T12:00:14+00:00

    Through Browser when download in Single session getting Bandwidth only 20-30 Mbps. I have 1Gbps connectivity.

    I get 500-650 Mbps speed in Download while download file from One Drive via Internet Download Manager (IDM) in 32 or 16 Session.

    I believe that there are cap in download in Single session from One Drive.

    Can anybody confirm it???

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  5. 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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