ICloud Drive makes internet unusable.

Whenever I have iCloud Drive enabled a process called 'nsurlsessiond' just starts downloading furiously. This screenshot is a 10 minute period and as you can see it downloaded 828.6MB in that small time frame. It almost makes my Internet unusable.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/JiFqXkN.png[/IMG]
I have seen other threads regarding this issue but is there a fix?

I ran some tests comparing iCloud Drive to Dropbox to see how fast each uploaded a file and to see how it effected my internet. This is what I found:
I closed all apps to have a minimal effect on the network. I uploaded the file to each service separately. The file was the same 211.3 MB file.
iCloud Drive: 2 minutes 32 seconds
ping statistics ---
154 packets transmitted, 148 packets received, 3.9% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 34.619/7593.152/20905.769/6540.356 ms
Dropbox: 2 minutes 51 seconds
ping statistics ---
181 packets transmitted, 180 packets received, 0.6% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 35.381/212.434/3718.613/412.643 ms
So, iCloud drive was faster, however if you look at the ping statistics, the network is much worse off when iCloud drive is uploading a file. Much more packet loss and significantly worse response times.

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Gail,
No you are not being dense, you are just trying to be helpful. I may not have explained the problem very well. Setting up a Family iCloud account works great! However, if that account name is also used for your iMessage, Facetime, and now cellular calls you have an issue with your calls going to the entire family (or worse the thing just not working), your iMessages if multiple phone numbers are trying to use the same icloud account usually get messed up, and their Facetime accounts might end up showing up as you instead of them. In fact, I think you can't call your family members in this situation and I'm not sure iMessage works very well either. So what everyone does is create a personal iCloud account for personal features such as iMessage, FaceTime, etc.
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I am trying to grasp all the possibilities for consolidating my stuff and my family's stuff from multiple devices and multiple accounts from multiple sources but I cant.
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