I justed posted this one the answer.microsoft.com, but I thought I re-post this here. It was driving me crazy how skydrive was and there were several post on the answer forums at Microsoft. I did some digging and I found the reason why Skydrive is so slow.
I am using Windows 8 Pro and with the Skydrive 17.0.2003.1112 client
Skydrive client seems to have a throttle.
1. They are using HTTP upload.
2. Limits are set in an ini file
%localappdata%\Microsoft\SkyDrive\settings\ClientPolicy.ini
Edit: my friend couldn't understand the post, as I will elaborate on this some more. Adding comments now.
MaxClientMBTransferredPerDay = 131072 #Max client transfer in MegaBytes per day. It could be megabits, but standard convention is MB for Megabytes and Mb for megabits
MaxClientRequestsPerDay = 500000 #I will assume this means how many times a day the Skydrive client can request upload/download
NumberOfConcurrentUploads = 1 #how many uploads you can have going at 1 time.
AllowUserOverrideOfConcurrentUploads = false #set to true to override the NumberOfConcurrentUploads setting
Settings speak for themselves.
I did not change anything in my ini file because I assume MS will ban your account. Anyone want to give it a try? My thought is through the Phone clients do not have a throttle.
[full dump of the file]
[PolicySettings]
PolicyDocumentPollIntervalSeconds = 24134
BackoffOnErrorsIntervalSeconds = 134
PolicyDocumentPrefetchIntervalSeconds = 6134
BackgroundPollShortIntervalSeconds = 314
BackgroundPollLongIntervalSeconds = 88934
UploadBatchMaxFolderCount = 50
UploadBatchMaxDocumentCount = 50
UploadBlockSizeKB = 1048576
DownloadBlockSizeKB = 1048576
MaxFileSizeBytes = 2147483647
Tier1MaxFileSizeBytes = 262144000
Tier1FileInclusionList = |doc|docm|docx|dot|dotm|dotx|odc|odp|ods|odt|pot|potm|potx|pps|ppsm|ppsx|ppt|pptm|pptx|rtf|vdw|vdx|vsd|vsdm|vsdx|vssm|vssx|vst|vstm|vstx|vsw|vsx|vtx|xla|xlam|xlm|xls|xlsb|xlsm|xlsx|xlt|xltm|xltx|xlw|
MaxItemsInOneFolder = 150000
LowVisibilityFileExclusionList = ~$*.*|*.laccdb|Desktop.ini|Thumbs.db|EhThumbs.db|.ds_store|Icon\r|.lock
HighVisibilityFileExclusionList =
DavUrlMatch = ^(?:http|https)://([a-zA-Z0-9])+\.([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)*docs(-df|-bvt|-s3|-gd|-current|-dev)*\.live(-tst)*\.net(?:\:[0-9]*)?/(?'cid'(?:[A-Fa-f0-9]*))(?'path'(\/.*)?$)
DocumentBackgroundPollIntervalSeconds = 3600
DavUrlTemplate = https://d.docs.live.net/{hexcid}/{path}
ShareUrlTemplate = https://skydrive.live.com/?cid={hexcid}&id={resourceid}&action=Share
PathEncoding = UrlEncode
OfficeProgID = Office.LocalSyncClient
OfficeRegKey = HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0
OfficeExcludeList = |
WacUrlTemplate = https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid={hexcid}&resid={ResourceID}&type=3&page=view
MaxClientMBTransferredPerDay = 131072
MaxClientRequestsPerDay = 500000
NumberOfConcurrentUploads = 1
AllowUserOverrideOfConcurrentUploads = false
SkyApiURL = https://skyapi.live.net
SkyDriveURI = https://by1.storage.msn.com/MyData/LiveFolders
SkyDriveItemsURI = https://by1.storage.msn.com/Items/{ResourceID}
SherlockEnabled = true
SherlockURL = https://rtlc.live.com/Sherlock/v2/TransactionReport
SyncHeartbeatEnabled = true
SyncHeartbeatInterval = 60
SyncVerificationEnabled = true
SyncVerificationInterval = 720
SyncProgressInterval = 60
SyncTelemetryURL = http://wlepsi3.redmond.corp.microsoft.com/SyncDiag.ashx
QosCollectionEnabled = true
SkyDriveURIServiceName = by1.storage.msn.com
SkyDriveURIAuthPolicy = MBI_SSL
I am using Windows 8 Pro and with the Skydrive 17.0.2003.1112 client
Skydrive client seems to have a throttle.
1. They are using HTTP upload.
2. Limits are set in an ini file
%localappdata%\Microsoft\SkyDrive\settings\ClientPolicy.ini
Edit: my friend couldn't understand the post, as I will elaborate on this some more. Adding comments now.
MaxClientMBTransferredPerDay = 131072 #Max client transfer in MegaBytes per day. It could be megabits, but standard convention is MB for Megabytes and Mb for megabits
MaxClientRequestsPerDay = 500000 #I will assume this means how many times a day the Skydrive client can request upload/download
NumberOfConcurrentUploads = 1 #how many uploads you can have going at 1 time.
AllowUserOverrideOfConcurrentUploads = false #set to true to override the NumberOfConcurrentUploads setting
Settings speak for themselves.
I did not change anything in my ini file because I assume MS will ban your account. Anyone want to give it a try? My thought is through the Phone clients do not have a throttle.
[full dump of the file]
[PolicySettings]
PolicyDocumentPollIntervalSeconds = 24134
BackoffOnErrorsIntervalSeconds = 134
PolicyDocumentPrefetchIntervalSeconds = 6134
BackgroundPollShortIntervalSeconds = 314
BackgroundPollLongIntervalSeconds = 88934
UploadBatchMaxFolderCount = 50
UploadBatchMaxDocumentCount = 50
UploadBlockSizeKB = 1048576
DownloadBlockSizeKB = 1048576
MaxFileSizeBytes = 2147483647
Tier1MaxFileSizeBytes = 262144000
Tier1FileInclusionList = |doc|docm|docx|dot|dotm|dotx|odc|odp|ods|odt|pot|potm|potx|pps|ppsm|ppsx|ppt|pptm|pptx|rtf|vdw|vdx|vsd|vsdm|vsdx|vssm|vssx|vst|vstm|vstx|vsw|vsx|vtx|xla|xlam|xlm|xls|xlsb|xlsm|xlsx|xlt|xltm|xltx|xlw|
MaxItemsInOneFolder = 150000
LowVisibilityFileExclusionList = ~$*.*|*.laccdb|Desktop.ini|Thumbs.db|EhThumbs.db|.ds_store|Icon\r|.lock
HighVisibilityFileExclusionList =
DavUrlMatch = ^(?:http|https)://([a-zA-Z0-9])+\.([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)*docs(-df|-bvt|-s3|-gd|-current|-dev)*\.live(-tst)*\.net(?:\:[0-9]*)?/(?'cid'(?:[A-Fa-f0-9]*))(?'path'(\/.*)?$)
DocumentBackgroundPollIntervalSeconds = 3600
DavUrlTemplate = https://d.docs.live.net/{hexcid}/{path}
ShareUrlTemplate = https://skydrive.live.com/?cid={hexcid}&id={resourceid}&action=Share
PathEncoding = UrlEncode
OfficeProgID = Office.LocalSyncClient
OfficeRegKey = HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0
OfficeExcludeList = |
WacUrlTemplate = https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid={hexcid}&resid={ResourceID}&type=3&page=view
MaxClientMBTransferredPerDay = 131072
MaxClientRequestsPerDay = 500000
NumberOfConcurrentUploads = 1
AllowUserOverrideOfConcurrentUploads = false
SkyApiURL = https://skyapi.live.net
SkyDriveURI = https://by1.storage.msn.com/MyData/LiveFolders
SkyDriveItemsURI = https://by1.storage.msn.com/Items/{ResourceID}
SherlockEnabled = true
SherlockURL = https://rtlc.live.com/Sherlock/v2/TransactionReport
SyncHeartbeatEnabled = true
SyncHeartbeatInterval = 60
SyncVerificationEnabled = true
SyncVerificationInterval = 720
SyncProgressInterval = 60
SyncTelemetryURL = http://wlepsi3.redmond.corp.microsoft.com/SyncDiag.ashx
QosCollectionEnabled = true
SkyDriveURIServiceName = by1.storage.msn.com
SkyDriveURIAuthPolicy = MBI_SSL
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