IDG Contributor Network: Photos: Apple’s bandwidth hog from hell!

I had occasion recently to reupload my photos and videos to iCloud. I had all of them stored on my iMac, so I started the upload knowing it would take a long while to upload about 80 GB worth of stuff. I had forgotten, however, how truly awful Photos is when it comes to Internet connection bandwidth.
In short, Apple's Photos app is a freaking bandwidth hog!
As soon as I started the upload, Photos basically took over my Internet connection and slowed everything else down to a total crawl. It too