On average I get 25 Mbps download sync on a 1 Gbps connection. oDrive sends a file to my Google Drive from the old data center at 100Mbps steady speed. Then it starts to download to the new datacenter - painfully slow.
The main file I need is a 55 GB SQL backup file. On the same server at the new datacenter that oDrive is running on, it downloads in 10 minutes from the SAME Google Drive (right-click -> Download in Chrome) that oDrive is connected to.
It’s been 2 hours and oDrive is only up to 15%.
API or not. Why does drive.google.com download the file in 10 minutes and oDrive is hours?
Hi @tim,
Google Drive downloads are generally pretty fast. I will spin up an AWS instance and run a couple tests to see what I am getting for large file downloads from Google Drive. I know in the past I’ve gotten more than 600Mbps, steady. It can fluctuate a bit depending on when I’m downloading, but 25Mbps certainly seems much slower than I would expect.
Update:
I’ve run through a few tests now with files ranging from 500MB to 25GB across 4 different Google Drive accounts (2 GSuite and 2 personal).
Here are my observations:
I am generally seeing between 500-800Mbps download for most files (the 25GB file averaged around 700Mbps). Downloading the same files from the Google Drive web client is generally slower (~200-300Mbps).
The GSuite accounts seem to reach higher speeds than the personal accounts, although I don’t have enough accounts to really make that definitive.
Oddly, I am consistently getting slower speeds on certain files, even within the same account. There is one 10GB test file I have that is only getting ~120-150Mbps, but there is a 500MB file in the same account that gets ~500Mbps, and this happens consistently. The same 10GB and 500MB files download from Google’s web client at around 200-250Mbps.
There is probably more testing I can do, but I can at least say that odrive is capable of downloading pretty fast. I am seeing some varying results depending on the Google Drive account and the particular file being downloaded.
Some things that would be interesting to see from your side:
Is the download just as slow from the old datacenter?
Is the slow speed limited to that file, or is it for all files?
Is the slow speed limited to that account, or is it for any account you try?
Are the results any different from other machines/locations?
What is the speed like when downloading from the odrive web client?