Speed up Upload and Download Speeds in Google Drive

Google Drive is one of the top notch cloud storage providers around.

Due to many inbuilt functionalities that come with it, it has proven to be a hot favorite from regular individuals to corporate level businesses. Having said that, it does suffer from few issues sometimes which tend to bog down the user experience. One major issue faced by users is related to the slow bandwidth speed while files are being synced. 

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Solutions

Solution 1: Configure the Inbuilt Preferences

The inbuilt configuration provides a couple of options to adjust to meet various consumer expectations. One such option is Advanced where attributes related to the connection which Google makes with its servers to sync files can be defined. Changing the given values here brings about a significant improvement in the bandwidth speed depending on how it’s configured at first place.

1. Locate the Google Drive icon in the notification area and right-click it. Select Preferences as seen in the following screenshot.
   

   

2. Switch to the Advanced tab.
   
   
3. Select Direction connection in Proxy settings.
   

   

4. Select the Don’t limit option in both Download Rate as well as Upload Rate.
   
   

 

Solution 2: Configure the LAN Settings

If the Internet is being used over a router, then the LAN is utilized to provide the connectivity to the devices attached to it. Adjust the LAN settings in the Control Panel for bringing about further improvement.

1. Search for Internet Options in the start menu and select it.
   

   

2. Switch to the Connections tab.
   
   
3. Click the LAN settings button in Local Area Network (LAN) settings.
   

   

4. Check the Automatically detect settings option, and then click OK to save the changes.
   
   

 

Solution 3: Enable Offline Availability

This option doesn’t work with all file formats, but it is still useful if the given files formats are used more often in the browser. It downloads on it’s own a copy of the file stored in the cloud storage to reduce the loading time, thereby resulting in much faster access to the file. Even though technically this method doesn’t improve the download speed, it still useful to make the file available as quickly as possible on the local system.

1. Visit the following web URL to access the Google Drive:
   https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive
2. Click on the cog wheel on the top right corner.
   
   
3. Locate the Offline heading, and enable the option in the same row.
   

   

4. Restart the browser for making the changes fully effective.

 

Solution 4: Terminate Unnecessary Apps Which Waste the Bandwidth

This isn’t much of a problem for very high-speed internet connections, as they have plenty of spare bandwidth for Google Drive to function normally. However, if the user is on a 3G or old DSL connections, then it’s important to take note of the bandwidth utilization in order to use the full potential of the available network.

1. Right-click anywhere on the taskbar and select Task Manager.
   

   

2. Click on More details to access the advanced options. (This step is only for Windows 10).
   
   
3. Now switch to the Performance tab.
   

   

4. Click Open Resource Monitor to access it.
   
   
5. Now switch to the Network tab.
   

   

6. Sort the Total column in descending order by clicking on it, Now note down the applications that utilize most of the bandwidth.
   

   

7. Close the Open Resource Monitor, and return to the Task Manager. Switch to the Processes tab, right-click on an app that isn’t required and it is consuming a lot of bandwidth, and terminate it as seen in the following screenshot. Perform this for all apps you wish to close.