Mac OS X,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

Limit Upload and Download Streams for Google Drive File Stream on macOS

Google Drive File Stream allows you to access files from Google’s cloud. It’s pretty easy for a lot of our coworkers to saturate our pipes. So you can configure a maximum download and upload speed in kilobytes per second. To do so write a com.google.drivefs.settings defaults domain into /Library/Preferences/com.google.drivefs.settings and use a key of BandwidthRxKBPS for download and BandwidthTxKBPS for upload (downstream and upstream as they refer to them) as follows:

defaults write com.google.drivefs.settings BandwidthRxKBPS -int 200
defaults write com.google.drivefs.settings BandwidthTxKBPS -int 200