{"id":3932,"date":"2016-08-29T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:53:54","slug":"throttle-onedrive-upload-download-sync-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/throttle-onedrive-upload-download-sync-speeds\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Throttle OneDrive Upload and Download (Sync) Speeds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If OneDrive client is taking major portion of your bandwidth and affecting your browsing or Windows Update download speed, you can limit upload and download rates in OneDrive settings.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Right-click the OneDrive icon in Notification area, and click Settings<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/onedrive-sync-speed-2.png\" alt=\"onedrive sync speed throttle\" width=\"302\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3933\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Network tab, set the Upload rate and Download rate accordingly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/onedrive-sync-speed-1.png\" alt=\"onedrive sync speed throttle\" width=\"421\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3934\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If OneDrive client is taking major portion of your bandwidth and affecting your browsing or Windows Update download speed, you can limit upload and download rates in OneDrive settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","tag-onedrive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5423,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/reset-onedrive-windows-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":3932,"position":0},"title":"How to Reset OneDrive, or Uninstall and Reinstall it in Windows 10\/11","author":"Ramesh","date":"September 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"OneDrive cloud storage feature is integrated into Windows 10 and 11. 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