OneDrive download on Skinny Wireless Broadband

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johno1234

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#311236 27-Dec-2023 11:07

Attempting to download a 200GB file from OneDrive on a Skinny wireless broadband connection. Speedtest shows a steady 40MB/sec download speed but the download on OneDrive is anywhere from zero to 2MB/sec and predicted time to download varies from days to weeks.

Any ideas? OneDrive doesn't have a limit set in its settings.

Thanks

[update] - was not logged into OneDrive with a Microsoft account - logged in and restarted and it is still slow but much better - now around 5-6MB/sec steady. Still way below the 40MB/sec Speedtest download speed.

nztim

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#3175741 27-Dec-2023 11:32

Whats it like on another connection?

Was it a file shared with you from overseas? the file may not be on local CDNs

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tdgeek

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#3175748 27-Dec-2023 12:19

Broadband tends to get hammerd in the holidays, a wireless connection does have a finite capability per tower, that could be part of it, or most of it

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#3175751 27-Dec-2023 13:10

Speedtest usually displays speeds in megabits per second (Mb/s). Downloads are normally measured in megabytes per second (MB/s). There's an 8x difference between the two, so your 5MB/s is probably 40Mb/s.

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#3175757 27-Dec-2023 14:08

SomeoneSomewhere:

Speedtest usually displays speeds in megabits per second (Mb/s). Downloads are normally measured in megabytes per second (MB/s). There's an 8x difference between the two, so your 5MB/s is probably 40Mb/s.

Didn't even think of this, what you can also do is look at your network performance through your task manager to compare

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johno1234

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#3175771 27-Dec-2023 15:44

Duh! That will be it. For some reason the wifi is also showing as 54Mbps as well so no hope of getting a lot faster.

I'll have to download this when I get back home to a fibre connection and wired LAN.