OneDrive Throttling

In my recent attempt to transfer a substantial amount of data from my local computer to my Microsoft OneDrive, I initially anticipated a reasonable upload time.

However, as days turned into what felt like months, I realized something was amiss. After some investigation, I discovered that I had unintentionally enabled throttling in my OneDrive settings, severely limiting the upload speed.

I started to have a dig around the OneDrive settings to see if there was something that I could change to make upload faster, or change the priority of how things were uploaded and I found the Network tab.

At some point and for some unknown reason I had set a Limit to something ridiculously low, once I changed that setting the upload sped through and all my files are now protected in the cloud.

Being able to adjust the upload or download rate of OneDrive is great for those times when you want to save some bandwidth for other things on your network, but in this case it really hampered me.

So check your settings, tweak them, make them work for you and not against you! 😉