Should OneDrive be this slow?

1.15 Mbps upload speed translates to roughly 150 KB/s upload speed, which means 9 MB get uploaded per minute, 540 MB uploaded per hour and 6.480 MB or roughly 6.5 GB per day, thus those 12 GB will take two days continuos uploading.

1 Megabit per second is roughly 0.125 MegaByte per second, since 1 bit is 1/8 of a Byte.

As for the rest of your browsing experience, that is expected, since websites need to check what is already downloaded via uploading information, thus a full upload channel will put a damper on the browsing.

Traverse said:

Thank you. I did not know the Mbps to KB/s conversion. I appreciate your help.

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Yes, most ISP advertise their speeds in Megabit, since it is the bigger number, but since all file sizes are measured in Byte, it is misleading, thus a 16 Mbit download speed translates to 2 MB/s, which is quite fast anyway, since one can download almost 173 GB per day. Since most internet connections are asynchronous, meaning the upload speed is a lot slower than the download speed, a 16 Mbit download speed often only translates to 2 Mbit upload speeds, which would be "only" 21.6 GB per day, but you have a much slower upload speed anyway.

Look at the Post your internet connection speed thread in the Picture Gallery sub-forum, to be in awe at some of those speeds and be glad, some of those speeds are not yours, to fill the time.

simsaladimbamba said:

Yes, most ISP advertise their speeds in Megabit, since it is the bigger number, but since all file sizes are measured in Byte, it is misleading, thus a 16 Mbit download speed translates to 2 MB/s, which is quite fast anyway, since one can download almost 173 GB per day. Since most internet connections are asynchronous, meaning the upload speed is a lot slower than the download speed, a 16 Mbit download speed often only translates to 2 Mbit upload speeds, which would be "only" 21.6 GB per day, but you have a much slower upload speed anyway.

Look at the Post your internet connection speed thread in the Picture Gallery sub-forum, to be in awe at some of those speeds and be glad, some of those speeds are not yours, to fill the time.

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A couple of corrections:

1) The recognized convention is to measure bit serial communication in Kb/s, Mb/s or Gb/s because the communication media is fundamentally bit serial. By contrast, most parallel interfaces are measured in KB/s, MB/s etc... but most of those interfaces have been obsoleted by newer bit serial interfaces... due to their inherent advantages at higher performance levels.

2) I believe you meant to say "asymmetric" (not asynchronous... which is a totally different thing).

Those two corrections, notwithstanding... you post is spot on and good advice.

/Jim