Internet incredibly slow when uploading a video.

Shortbread

Shortbread

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I noticed something strange happening when I was uploading some videos today. My download speed would slow down to a crawl while a video was being uploaded. I usually get 15 megabits per second but today while uploading it would slow down to 0.25 megabits per second (according to speedtest) making the internet pretty much unusable.

I looked at my network resource monitor and it showed Chrome/YouTube downloading something at 1 megabytes+ per second of something. Which is weird because shouldn't uploading a video use mostly upload speed?

As soon as it's finished uploading the internet works perfectly fine again. I've never had this problem before in all my years of uploading videos. It sucks because uploading 500MB videos takes a long time and not being able to browse YouTube, stream Netflix, or even browse reddit during that time gives me pretty much nothing to do.

Anyone else have the same problem or know what might be going on?
 
I'm getting the same problem, when I try to upload a video it's like the internet stops working. It has caused me to have to re-upload, I really hope this stops happening soon.
 
It has been happening to me as well. Youtube now shuts my internet down for the rest of my family when I'm uploading videos.
 
In order to have good download speed you need upload speed to request those download bits. Strange but true. If your upload is completely used your download is going to be very slow.
 
Lrulesok said:
I would recommend you guys just get a generally better internet. Go fibre if you can afford it.
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I've had the same 15Mbit down/5Mbit up for years with over 300 videos uploaded and it's never been a problem until today. There's something else going on.
 
I have the exact same problem (and have had it ever since I started uploading videos). I usually get around it by making sure I upload at a time when none of my family are going to want to use the internet.

Lrulesok said:
I would recommend you guys just get a generally better internet. Go fibre if you can afford it.
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I would if I could...
 
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