Bandwith limiting when uploading

Feature requests
#44

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.

#45

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.

#46

It can’t be so hard to implement it

#47

Hi, I’am a new customer
I need bandwidth limit settings fon insync

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#48

+1 for that feature request

#49

+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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#50

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.

#51

Uhhhh if near-team means 27+ months then your roadmap really needs a sort.

#52

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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#53

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

#54

Any news on this feature?
Seems like a pretty basic feature, would love to see it implemented!

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#55

Hey @clemwo! Thanks for bumping this thread. It seems to be getting more traffic in the last few weeks; let me bring it up again with our Product Team for review!

#56

Pretty amazing you don’t have this, it’s the only download/upload tool I have which is missing something so basic as limiting maximum bandwidth. I agree a scheduled version would be great, and even “advanced” things like other software has such as increasing bandwidth while computer is not in use… but to start with just the basic limits would go a long way to adding a core component of what any online tool should have.

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#57

Such a basic thing and it’s missing. You copy over few large files to your Google drive and it gobbles up your entire upload bandwidth. It’s so bad that you can barely even use browser.

And to add insult to the injury, you press “Pause app”, but it happily keeps uploading.

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#58

Hey @Zlondrej!

Thank you for adding your +1 to this feature and for sharing your pain points at the moment. I have notified our Product Team that this is getting more traffic and that we must revisit the importance of having bandwidth limiting/control.

It’s interesting that you mentioned that Insync still kept uploading after hitting pause. It definitely should not be the case. Do you mind if we investigate that further? You may send your logs.db and out.txt files to support@insynchq.com with the link to this post. Please do include the name of the file/directory that kept uploading so we can trace it accordingly.

Thank you!

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#59

I just signed up to vote for this feature. It’s been seven years already…

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#60

This is appalling. Did I buy a cloud sync product for Linux without a network bandwidth limit feature? Need this feature ASAP, it seems to be a pretty basic one.

#61

I can’t believe after 7 years of promising this feature, you still haven’t delivered it. Unbelievable.

My router is actually crashing because Insync generates so many requests when syncing just 2 Google Drive and 1 OneDrive account.

#62

Hello, @stralytic.

It’s frustrating to keep running into these crashing issues with a paid software without assurance on when your feature requests would be put in the pipeline.

Our engineers are prioritizing reliability improvements that would address how Insync utilizes available resources to prevent these performance issues. We will keep our community updated once I have more information on its progress + development.

#63

Well I tried this because I a) have to restore from an online backup source and b) have to upload this data on Google Drive. It would be nice if Insync woudn’t slow down my uploads - I got a minimum 250/40MBit (which is currently running as 292/46MBit) line and my restore job drops until ~5MB/s, which is a mess.

Using trickle and trickle -s -u 4096 insync start will cause Insync to be completely blind:

Trickle OFF:
before

Tricke ON:

after
after979×608 12 KB