Tag Archives: OneDrive

Limit OneDrive and Windows Update bandwidth hogging

Have a really horrible internet connection currently, and whenever Windows Update and OneDrive starts downloading stuff, I can basically not do anything else because they’re hogging all my bandwidth.

BITS

  1. Open Local Group Policy Editor.
  2. Go to Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Network / Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).
  3. Enable Limit the maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers, and optionally adjust the rate and hours.
  4. Reboot, possibly?

Source: SuperUser.com

QoS Policy

  1. Open Local Group Policy Editor.
  2. Go to User Configuration / Windows Settings / Policy-based QoS.
  3. Right-click and hit Create new policy.
  4. Set DSCP Value to 1 and/or Outbound Throttle Rate to something appropriate.
  5. Set QoS policy to apply to applications with executable name onedrive.exe (or skydrive.exe, check your process list).
  6. Reboot, possibly?

Source: Don’t remember…