Google Drive transfers throttled to crawl speeds
Google Drive transfers through rclone drop to a few KiB/s or about 2 Mbps for hours at a time, on mounts and copies from several locations.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
18 public reports · first reported 30 September 2026 · last reported 2 October 2026
What's going wrong
Many people using rclone with Google Drive report transfers that fall to a few kilobytes or about two megabits per second for hours, then recover without any change on their side.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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