Is there a way to upload Photos to iCloud in small groups

The new Photos app is causing havoc with our home Internet. It seems to be hanging up and working, if at all, very slowly. Apple Support didn't seem to see a problem. But when the upload to iCloud option is turned on, our home Internet speed goes from 20 Mbps to less than 1 (upload speed is a little over 1 Mbps). And progress is so slow it's barely noticeable. After a week, only a few hundred had been uploaded.
What would help is if there was a way to select groups of photos, say a couple of hundred, and upload them. Then re-select until someday I have all 18,000+ photos uploaded. Anybody know a way to do this?

I have 1 Mbps upload so haven't even tried to enable uploads.
Options to consider:
1 - Don't bother
2 - Consider creating a new library for the cloud and in preferences designating that the system library (hold alt whilst opening Photos) - only add small groups of photos to this at a time to allow small chunks to upload
3 - Be selective - don't upload everything - only items copied into the system library will sync - if you add other photos by reference only they are excluded from cloud syncs, but that could become messy confusing.
4 - Upgrade broadband if possible
Some further info here:
https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/pht1ed9b966d

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