NetBalancer is a free internet traffic control and monitoring tool for Windows. The policy should take effect after a few minutes but, more often than not, you’ll need to restart your Surface before it will throttle OneDrive. When that happens, click Finish to complete the creation of the group policy. You don’t need to make any other changes so you can “click through” the remaining screens by selecting Next until it changes to Finish.Select create new policy… from the menu that appears.

Browse to User Configuration → Windows Settings, then right-click on Policy-based QoS.Search for gpedit.msc then open the top result.If your bandwidth problems are because you have a lot of files being copied down from the cloud to your Surface, check out the next section (Netbalancer). If your bandwidth issues are because of files being synced from your Surface up to the cloud, this should do the trick for you. You can use something called Local Group Policy to effectively throttle OneDrive, however, it only works for uploads. Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn’t (yet) seen fit to include a setting in OneDrive to do such network throttling but, that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Doing so would limit the amount of bandwidth OneDrive could use and allow you to keep using your Surface for other things at the same time. The best way to handle this issue would be to throttle OneDrive (put a limit on it), so it can’t use all of the available network bandwidth.

As you might expect, this problem rears it’s ugly head most often right after an operating system reset because it is trying to sync all of your data from OneDrive. However, it can also happen because you made updates to a large number of files (or just a few updates to large files) in your local OneDrive folder. NetBalancer Free can set and monitor your download and upload transfer rate priority for applications.īrowse and do any internet activity comfortably even when your download manager or torrent client downloads huge files from the web - lower their network priority with this app.Īpplications with a higher network priority will gain more traffic bandwidth than those with a lower one.If you use OneDrive a lot (as I do) you’ve almost certainly run into issues where OneDrive is taking up all of your bandwidth which, pretty much, makes your Surface unusable for anything else that is trying to use the network, such as your web browser or email.

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