# Throttling

Drive uses all available local bandwidth to upload and download your files by default. For some, this behavior's a bit much as it gets in the way of other usage on your local network (e.g. for co-workers or backups).

If this is true in your case, you can easily throttle Drive's connection from the command line (`Terminal.app`).

First, connect Drive. Then use one, or both, of the following commands in Terminal. You can specify the data rate as `(N)KB` | `MB` | `GB` | `TB`.

In these examples, we'll throttle: 

* The upload speed to `2MB` (2MB/s = 16 Mbps).
* The download speed to `12MB` (12MB/s = 96 Mbps).

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Uploading" %}
`/Applications/Postlab.app/Contents/Resources/postlab-drive --instance 1 config --set --local --ObjectScheduler.MaxUploadRate 2MB`
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Downloading" %}
`/Applications/Postlab.app/Contents/Resources/postlab-drive --instance 1 config --set --local --ObjectScheduler.MaxDownloadRate 16MB`
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% hint style="info" %}
You can use something like [DuckDuckGo's Data Transfer Rate calculator](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mbps+to+mb+s+converter) to convert between megabits per second and megabytes per second.
{% endhint %}

Throttling Drive's connection will persist for you on your local Mac, but you can use this command to confirm your Drive upload or download configuration:

`/Applications/Postlab.app/Contents/Resources/postlab-drive --instance 1 config --list --local`

### Removing Throttling

To remove any throttling from your local Mac on Drive, use one of these commands, setting the data rate to `unlimited`.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Uploading" %}
`/Applications/Postlab.app/Contents/Resources/postlab-drive --instance 1 config --set --local --ObjectScheduler.MaxUploadRate unlimited`
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Downloading" %}
`/Applications/Postlab.app/Contents/Resources/postlab-drive --instance 1 config --set --local --ObjectScheduler.MaxDownloadRate unlimited`
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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