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[renluop]

I had my first experience of using One Drive to upload files to a Microsoft site re a question I had about non installing updates.

Took ages (squared ). What are others' experiences? Have they got round the slowness somehow?

[Ronski]

I've just dragged a 130MB file to my one drive and it took about 4 minutes to upload, I do have an upload speed of 6.5Mbps. I also use cloud backup and it never utilises the entire bandwidth.

[renluop]

Are you FTTC? I am not, so my upload is a lot slower than yours, and the folder and contents were 29MB.

[Iain]

One Drive is great if you have a Windows phone, it keeps a copy of any pictures you take so you always have a back of them. Alas I changed phones last month, but its the feature I miss the most. It works pretty quickly for me, but then I do have FTTC and am very close to the cabinet and exchange!

[Dray]

You can probably get a Onedrive app for your new phone

[Ronski]

Are you FTTC? I am not, so my upload is a lot slower than yours, and the folder and contents were 29MB.

It's hardly one drives fault if you have a slow upload, any sort of upload will suffer. Yes as I said I have an upload of 6.5 Mbps,  so cleary not adsl 

[jid]

I used to use OneDrive and I did find uploads sometimes slow. I use Windows and Mac and the mac client is rubbish.  So I now pay for Dropbox Pro and I have no issues with it.

I guess it's whatever your needs are, but I've not heard now of any issues with OneDrive.

[Chunkers]

I have never used OneDrive but I use Google Drive all the time, it is great but I have had to adapt my usage due to my very slow net connection at home.

If I upload a file without controlling the bandwidth then it saturates my connection (typically 0.9 mbps bandwidth!) resulting in other members of the family getting time-out errors, bad requests etc and much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

So now I have to bandwidth limit my uploads, I have done this using CloudSync on my Synology NAS but there are lots of different ways.

In a downwards direction GoogleDrive is very fast in my experience.

Chunks

[Ronski]

When I was on adsl I had the same problem as Chunkers,  my cloud backup would saturate the upstream.

[Bowdon]

@Ronski and Clunckers

Did the upload saturation happen if you uploaded to any site or just onedrive?

I noticed when I was on dsl with Pipex I didnt have any issues with uploading and downloading until near the end. Then whenever I tried to upload something my downloads would crawl.

I wondered if its something Pipex did as it hadnt happened before that point, and after it happened all the time. I then left Pipex for Be and my uploads worked properly again.

[Ronski]

It was only Cloudplan that I  remember,  but that was the only upload that was big enough to cause problems,  this was when I was on Adsl.