Dropbox did a lot better job than OneDrive in terms of managing network bandwidth. I would suggest that give the QoS policy in Group Policy a try first and if that fails, use NetBalancer as your last resort. As you can see from the screenshot below, the traffic bandwidth drops significantly right after limiting the upload speed. Then, specify a speed limit in Upload Priority section. Right-click OneDrive (SkyDrive in my case), go to Upload Priority and Limit… To throttle OneDrive’s upload speed, sort the Up Rate column first so the one that eats up the upload bandwidth the most will show at the top. And you can manage them for each network adapter separately. The tool comes with 6 priority levels, from the limit, ignore block, to low, normal, and high, in each download and upload category. The applications with higher priority gain more traffic bandwidth than those with a lower number.
It balances your internet activities based on the priorities set on each running application using this tool. NetBalancer is an internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed specifically for Windows systems. It may take a few moment to have the new policy to kick in. A reboot may be required. You can right-click the policy name to make changes if needed. Once the rule is created, the Group Policy will look like this. Give a name for the policy, deselect Specify DSCP Value, and check Specify Outbound Throttle Rate to enable it, and put a number that’s lower than your internet upload limit.Ĭlick Next, and leave the rest of the settings default in the next 3 steps. Open Local Group Policy Editor (press Win+R, type in “gpedit.msc”, and hit Enter), navigate to User Configuration → Windows Settings and right-click Policy-based QoS, and create a new policy. So is there any way to make that happen, even OneDrive doesn’t have it? Option 1: Set up a QoS rule in Group Policy That’s because, unlike Dropbox, OneDrive doesn’t have a QoS-like feature built in that could limit the upload speed to a certain rate. And when things like this happen, browsing Internet becomes a very painful thing to do. Have you noticed that uploading big files to OneDrive could be frustrating sometimes? See the screenshot below, OneDrive sends data to the cloud in 952Kbps eating up all my home internet upload bandwidth, which caps at 1Mbps. Then go to Network tab in Microsoft OneDrive Settings window to set up the upload/download rate to limit the traffic bandwidth. You can right-click the OneDrive icon in the system tray and select Settings.
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Apparently, the recent update to OneDrive added a very important but long overdue feature that can limit traffic bandwidth for both download and upload.