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
    2025-02-01T22:01:10+00:00

    I have the same problem this week... Asked BingAI and got a solution - Free Download Manager (FDM). I don't trust such software and use it on a virtual machine but it just showed freacking amazing result by occupying all my internet bandwidth. Just feed it with OneDrive shared link. If the link returns a webpage, start download with a browser and copy download link from running download into FDM.

    This worked, just make sure to make the file public. Atleast for the download time.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-28T03:55:18+00:00

    I want to sue Microsoft for their malware OneDrive, it cause extremely problems in keep my files, make barrier for downloading, make special icons to cheat you to must chose it to force/scam you to use it.

    WHO WILL GO WITH ME?

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-19T14:25:35+00:00

    Yeah, this behaviour is convincing me to switch service. Microsoft is behaving like real scammers at this point.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-19T04:27:30+00:00

    Yes it **** and distafeful that they try and trap you. I am out.

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