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Throttling youtube upload speed

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This concept may seem counterintuitive but if you become a regular uploader of rather large files, no matter how fast your connection the bandwidth will be mostly used by youtube.
If you want to do anything else this is kind of annoying especially to other users on the network.

In Chrome you can impose a limit in developer tools and restricting to between 50% and 70% of maximum will mean most other things you do are barely affected.

This is probably the most comprehensive guide. There are some confusing youtube videos describing it too.
Limit Upload Speed in Google Chrome for individual websites (without plugins)
 
Gotta love ADSL in the UK, right?
It's all we can get here but to be fair about 5mb down and 400kb up is usually adequate.
If I set the upload limit at 300kb it's still possible to watch youtube (for example) on another tab or the laptop at 1080p.
The problem of YT hogging bandwidth will still be there even with a much faster upload speed - just for a shorter time!
 
400kb/sec upstream?

F'ing shocking mate :(

It's 2017 ffs, why are we soooooo far behind the rest of the world?
 
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