OneDrive upload taking too long? Skip the upload
OneDrive uploads at your upload speed, and its sync app can slow itself down on purpose: with Adjust automatically it only uses bandwidth that nothing else is using. The other person waits for the whole upload, and then they download the file again.
If the file is for one person, KEIBIDROP sends it straight from your computer to theirs. Nothing gets uploaded first, there's no file size limit and no account, and they can open it while it's still coming in, even in a browser.
Check the upload limit in OneDrive
Click the OneDrive cloud icon, then Help and Settings, then Settings. Go to the Sync and back up tab and expand Advanced settings. If the upload rate has a fixed limit or is set to Adjust automatically, turn the limit off while the big upload runs. On a work or school account, your IT department may manage this setting for you.
Things that make a OneDrive upload faster
- Use the OneDrive app for big files. Microsoft recommends it over the website for anything bigger than a few GB, and one file can be up to 250 GB.
- Connect the computer to the router with a cable if it has a network port.
- Pause the other uploads on the same internet: photo backup on your phone, iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox.
- Zip a folder with lots of small files into one file first.
- Run a speed test and check the upload speed. A 20 GB file at 20 Mbps up takes about 2 hours and 15 minutes, before the other person starts their download.
Send it straight to the other person
With OneDrive the file travels twice: up to Microsoft, then down to the other person. With KEIBIDROP it travels once, straight from your computer to theirs, and it shows up on their screen right away with its name and size.
- Install KEIBIDROP from the install page. It's free for Mac, Windows and Linux, and there's an Android app too.
- Open it, press Copy next to your code, and send the code to the other person on WhatsApp, Signal, email or any chat app.
- They install it too, paste your code and press Add. Then they press Copy and send you their code. You paste theirs and press Add.
- You both press Connect.
- Drag the file or folder onto the window: a video, a PDF, a spreadsheet, an archive, a game, anything. It pops up on their screen and they press Save.
If they don't want to install anything, press Invite link instead. They open the link, press Join from this browser and follow the page. The Google Drive post has those steps in full.
| OneDrive link | KEIBIDROP | |
|---|---|---|
| Upload first | Yes, the whole file | No |
| Biggest file | 250 GB | No limit |
| Account | Microsoft account | None |
| Copy kept on a server | Yes | No |
| They open it before it has all arrived | No | Yes, with the shared folder or Play in the browser |
Private the whole way
Everything is encrypted from one device to the other, and the encryption is quantum-safe: it's built to hold up even against future quantum computers. On a direct connection the file never touches our servers. When a firewall, a hotel Wi-Fi or a mobile network blocks a direct connection, our relay passes along encrypted pieces it can't read.
The key exchange combines ML-KEM-1024, a post-quantum algorithm in NIST's highest security category, with X25519, so both would have to be broken. Details on the security page.
Both computers have to be on and connected while the file moves. If you need to turn yours off, ask them to press Save first, so the whole file is on their computer.
A full copy still takes as long as your upload speed needs for that size. The difference is that it happens once, and the other person can start on the file while it arrives.
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