When you upload a large file to the Internet, like when you upload a Youtube video, it can
put so much strain on your Internet connection that other people in the house can’t get
online.
In this video, I’m going to show how to avoid this by limiting your upload speed in
Google Chrome.
And we’ll do this without using any plugins. Let’s find out how.
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Today’s question:
When I upload my Youtube videos, it snarls up my Internet connection. No one else can
use the Internet until I’ve finished uploading. How can I limit my upload speed to prevent
this happening? I use Google Chrome.
Well, with some Internet providers, using too much bandwidth can cause a loss of service
to other people using the same connection.
The answer to this is to limit the speed that your computer can upload things to the Internet
with.
If you’re using Google Chrome, there is a way to limit your upload speeds, but it’s
not obvious.
Before we do anything though, we’re going to find out what kind of speeds your Internet
connection can handle.
So, we’re going to run a speed test.
Open Chrome, and go to this website: speedtest.net.
You’ll need to agree to the cookies.
Now make sure no one else in the house is using the Internet - this makes your results
as accurate as possible.
When you’re ready, click Go.
Now wait for the speed test to finish. We’re interested in the upload speed.
My upload speed is 5.73 Mbps, which isn’t too bad.
I find that as a rule of thumb, you should limit your upload speeds to about 75% of this
maximum. This means that there’s enough speed for other people in the house, but you
won’t be waiting all day for your own file to upload.
Of course, you can experiment with this figure yourself.
I’m going to go with a limit of 75 % of 5.73, which is about 4.3 Mbps.
Now let’s set up that limit in Chrome.
Open chrome and go to the page where you’re going to do the upload - I’m going to be
uploading a video to Youtube.
We need to open Chrome’s Developer Tools.
So right-click anywhere on the page, and click Inspect.
When the DevTools appear, click on Network at the top. If you can’t see Network, you
should find it if you click on the double arrow.
Now look at this second menu bar, the one with the red circle at the start.
At the end of this bar, you should see Offline then Online. If you can’t see this, drag
the DevTools out to make it wider.
Now click on the world Online.
Here we have some profiles for limiting the Network speed. We want to make a new Profile.
So, click Add.
Then click Add custom profile.
Type a name for the profile here. I’m going to type YouTube upload at home.
Look at these three boxes - Download, Upload and Latency. We want to add a figure to Upload,
but leave the other two alone.
Earlier, I decided to limit my upload speed to 4.3 Mbps. This box is asking for Kbps,
so I need to multiply my limit by 1000.
This gives me 4300 Kbps.
Now I’m going to press Add. Then press the x in the corner to close this screen.
Now we can turn on the profile we just made. So click on Online, and select YouTube upload
at home.
This profile only applies to the current tab, so anything else you do on the Internet will
be unaffected.
Now you just need to do the upload. Just make sure you keep the DevTools open while you
do this. I’m going to select the YouTube video I’m uploading.
Now I should find that I can still do other things online while I wait for my video to
upload.
When the video’s uploaded, I can close this tab and nothing is limited now.
Hopefully that helped you limit your upload speed and stopped everyone in your house getting
mad every time you upload files.
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