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svchhost.exe hogging bandwith
My internet download speed is only 1MB/s. Often svchost.exe eats up all the speed for itself, downloading something. Most often it's some update, but not always. Anyway I have unlimited data plan, so I don't care much about what it downloads, what drives me crazy is that while doing so it uses all the bandwidth. I can't use browser or any other internet related stuff during that time.
Is there a way to limit how much bandwith svchhost can use? Preferably in Windows, without using 3rdparty tool?
I've seen others having the same problem here in the past, but their questions were left without solutions. So far the only thing that worked for me was Netbalancer and Netlimiter. I tried to set the highest priority to FF and the lowest to svchost.exe, but that had no effect at all in neither Netbalancer nor Netlimiter. Then I tried to set fixed limit on how much bandwith svchhost can use and it works perfectly.
Problem is that both Netbalancer and Netlimiter are free only for a trial period. I can't afford to pay for them. Is there any way to fix this annoying bug from inside Windows 10 ? (never had this problem in W7). Or at least a free alternative for netlimiter?