How can I throttle App Store download bandwidth

Sure, normally I'll want App Store updates and new purchases to download as fast as it possibly can.
However, there are times I want to manually initiate updates and that's when App Store utterly *KILLS* all bandwidth of the network. I can't even load a web page when App Store is downloading an update. Everything times-out, and company phone (on VOIP) utterly shuts down completely. Other computers actually lose connections with network printers, it's utterly crazy.
Is there any possible way I can throttle the bandwidth being used by the App Store? At all?
I mean, seriously, this is ridiculous. Even Windows Update doesn't do this on our Windows boxes.

Thanks for your response. Though it's not an Apple server issue I know that an app can also throttle what it pulls (for example: my USENET app can use multiple threads and even place a bandwidth limit on each, regardless how 'powerful' the server ability is. I have many other apps that can do the same.) Regardless, I marked this reply as "helpful" even though it's not the answer I was looking for (which is either where I can find the setting -or- there is no such setting in that app; I'll presume the latter).
And I know what you're thinking because I'm thinking the same thing: our network *****. 

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