Avoid using your internet connection for other activities while youre transferring a large amount of data. Avoid running other apps on your computer when youre uploading or downloading a large amount of data. Insync 1.X seemed to do this well enough. Here are some tips for maximizing the transfer speed: Use a wired instead of a wireless connection. Have Insync resume syncing a file if the computer gets shut down or put to sleep instead of starting over again. Reduce the number of simultaneous downloads (whatever Insync 1.X was set at seemed to work well for me) In my opinion, 2 things need to be fixed: The only way I was able to get my 100gb file to upload was to change my power settings so that my computer never went to sleep until the file was uploaded. And every time I’ve had to do that in the past, Insync v3 will start the upload over again. Then split that small amount of bandwidth over 12 large files at once, and it’s more likely that the file times out or the user has to shut down their computer or put it to sleep before the file uploads. The upload speed of most people’s internet connections is only a fraction of their download speeds, which usually results in 10Mbps/sec uploads or less. It seems to actually be a feature, and related to the change made in v3 that uploads 12 files at once as mentioned in the OP. Hi I’m not but wanted to clarify - at least in my view - that the slow syncing isn’t due to a bug in Insync. Open the Control Panel and Select Network and Internet. Sorry for the rant, but feeling a bit short-changed at the moment having recently purchased InSync only to have it fall over this badly the first time I try to use it anger, when a seemingly simple feature that ought to have been there from the start would solve the problem. All that you need to do is adjust the LAN Settings from the Control Panel. Again, if less were uploading at once, this would be far less of an issue. Where did it go.įurthermore, I have found that if I pause the large uploads for an hour or two because I need the bandwidth for work, they frequently re-start from 0.
So the ability to limit the number of simultaneous uploads is critical if you work with large files.Īlso, looking around the forums I see that this was promised as a feature for v2 of Insync in 2016. OneDrive Basic 5 GB and OneDrive 100 GB subscriptions are not eligible for additional storage plans. For Microsoft 365 Family users, only the account purchasing additional storage will receive the additional storage. Having spent literally an entire day trying persuade the last batch of files to sync when all were copied in at once, removing them from the folder and copying them back in one at a time is givng upload speeds that will probably allow me to complete the task in about an hour. Requires Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription. Further update, I’ve given up trying to get my large files to sync when copied in all at once, copying them into the synced folder one at a time is working and getting them onto OneDrive.