Pausing the Cloud
Whenever any one, or combination of, these apps saturates the ADSL upload bandwidth, downloading then becomes very difficult. And that presents a big problem when trying to do things like watch content on iTunes, or have a conversation over Skype.
These apps all try to address the problem, but in collectively (and sometimes individually) ineffective ways[…]
I’ve seen similar problems that are not related to Internet upload bandwidth. For example, whenever I tried to sync my iPhone using Wi-Fi rather than USB, iTunes saturated the local Wi-Fi, making Safari and Mail unusable.
That looks a lot like bufferbloat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat