same here! Please integrate this functionality!
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Just bought and setup Insync, amazed there is no bandwidth throttiling available. The network admin is going to come kill me when I try to sync at work for first setup!
If insync doesn’t implement this feature soon, I’m going to have to switch to something else. There is just no way I can handle manually turning on and off sync just so my family can actually use the internet during the day. I know that means no loss of revenue for insync, so I understand it only will suck for me, but I’ve got to use something that works. To me and many others here, this should be a core feature! The product is near unusable without it. Please roll out soon.
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Bandwidth control is on the near-term product roadmap 
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Can we get a definition of what “near-term” means please? This is so vague. It has been 7.5 months now and in that time you have rolled out Insync 3, that’s great for yourselves and OneDrive users but bandwidth control has been a requested feature for over 4 years and like other users have said, this should be one of the more basic features.
I’ve been using Insync since 2015, and I just paid for Insync 3’s prime hoping for some optimization, but the same issues still exist. Still, it randomly gets stuck syncing or randomly takes my CPU hostage. Restarting it enough times makes it act stably but I have to disable it so often to not throttle my internet that it is a constant battle. To top it off, Insync decided that all 300GB of my google drive needed re-uploading when I upgraded to 3, so I’ve paid for headaches and received no added functionality (for myself at least, admittedly) so I can’t really agree with the analogy you have about paying for microsoft word releases.
I have tried using trickle to limit bandwidth but for some reason, the gui freezes after a short time.
Can we get a true estimate of when this feature will be implemented? If not soon, there is surely a straightforward workaround. Uploading directly to my google drive through chrome doesn’t throttle my internet to the same extent. Scheduled syncing overnight could also work as a good compromise in the meantime.
I understand the difficulty you have in maintaining the software across multiple platforms while also needing to generate new customers, but surely such a basic feature needs more attention.
(Ubuntu 18.04)
Hey @Mike_M, totally understand the frustration. Bandwidth limiting has long been requested.
Some background: When we set out to build Insync 3 we decided to rebuild our core engine as it was clear that new features (including bandwidth support) and adding cloud support on top of our 10-year-old code wasn’t good longterm for users and the company.
Resources went to Insync 3, existing features had to be rebuilt and new features (other than OneDrive sync) had to be sidelined.
We plan to release new features on Insync 3 around November-December. Not the answer you’re looking for – but what features to prioritize (what problems to solve) is still being investigated and prioritized. Bandwidth control is part of that discussion 
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cheap cheap excuses but since f… 5 years you didnt added the core feature bandwidth limiting for insynchq itself.
5 YEARS GOD DAMNIT!
you even wrote that you rewrote the core for v3. well, IF you did that then wtf you didnt implement bandwidth control/limits too?! again, you had FIVE YEARS!!!
China builds a damn specialized hospital in under a week and you need 5 years AND COUNTING to provide a feature which is even provided by google themself, which you said you beat in features and performance. well, so far you didnt.
right now i have to QUIT INSYNC in order to get my upload bandwidth back so my family can watch tv etc etc. OR we , the paying customers, have to buy more software to fix the problems you did cause.
sorry, but the performance of your dev team and project owner for the last 5 years was more than poor.
Hi @Simon_Lange,
I understand your frustration and my apologies for the trouble. When we released Insync 3 out of beta, there was quite a significant number of issues reported. Given this, our team needed to refocus our priorities to fix the syncing issues before we can release additional features. We want our users to have a smoother syncing experience so it would be easier for our team to release features such as bandwidth control.
My trial period of Insync is almost up and despite it doing what I need for the most part, the lack of bandwidth limiting will be the reason I won’t purchase it.
The uploads are constantly at max which congests the network and has also turned out to be the cause of all my constant dropouts. It can’t run nicely in the background without affecting everything, not to mention that despite being at max upload speed, it seems to take a while getting through the queues anyway.
I would say I’d maybe come and try it another time, but I see it has been years and years of people requesting this very basic feature and it’s still not implemented. It’s a shame as it’s otherwise a decent enough program.
Not to excuse the lack of bandwidth control in insync, which like torrent clients should have bandwidth limits preferably with scheduling ability, and simultaneous file upload limits. Account prioritization would be great too.
But there are a few third party apps that allow you to manage bandwidth of programs on your computer. Below are for windows. Linux apps exist too.
The only free one I know of is http://www.tmeter.ru/en/ from what I read it can be difficult to configure so you probably want to read some tutorials.
Paid apps include https://netbalancer.com/ and the less expensive https://www.netlimiter.com/ which is probably worth the $20 if you have limited bandwidth.
I had actually tried Tmeter as it’s really the only free program now and it was very finicky to say the least. It also didn’t play well with my antivirus on startup each time. I’m sure I could have gotten it to work but I didn’t like the idea of needing yet another program running layered between my connection just for the sake of being able to use Insync in a way that didn’t mess up my entire network speeds.
I used NetLimiter years ago and it was the first program that came to mind. It would work well as you can just easily set the limits. However, why pay $20 for a third party program for a the very feature that should already be a part of Insync? We are literally just buying a third party program to then justify buying Insync.
Maybe if I needed to limit several programs, but I don’t. I have unlimited data and high speeds and literally only need to limit Insync because it runs at max and causes connection issues and dropouts for some reason. No other program has ever done that, but sure enough, turn off Insync and everything works fine. It really doesn’t make sense to buy a third party program so I can then buy Insync just to get it to work in a way that doesn’t interfere with everything else.
I appreciate the response, but honestly, it’s been five years and it’s a basic feature. It’s easier to stop using the program causing the issues and use one of the many alternatives that already exist.
It can’t be so hard to implement it
Hi, I’am a new customer
I need bandwidth limit settings fon insync
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+1 for that feature request
+1 for the feature request.
I have used “Trickle” to manage this in the past, but I no longer do so because changing the rate limit requires restarting Insync, and that causes many hours of waiting for scanning to complete (I have 1million files synced, 4.3TB). Being able to change this within the settings on the fly when someone in my household or myself needs to start a Zoom meeting would be great.
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Please add bandwidth control, you can’t deploy it to company network or simply at home without it because Insync will take upload in full speed and congest everything else, and after a few moment will causing wifi to hang or restart.
Uhhhh if near-team means 27+ months then your roadmap really needs a sort.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts @irvin and for bumping this forums thread. We are adapting a new process to be more effective + efficient in how we construct our product roadmap, and that includes how we consider feature requests among bug fixes that are lined up.
I appreciate this feedback!
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I’m a new user of InSync but I see it lack basic features as the requested bandwidth control.
I’m using also trickle but, thanks to your post, I just realize that it need restart of InSync.
And I don’t see an easy easy way to restart the app unless I kill it and restart again. The quit in top bar menu’ does nothing for me. I’m in Ubuntu 21.04
Any news on this feature?
Seems like a pretty basic feature, would love to see it implemented!
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