iCloud photos throttling sync (download) to 1 image every 30 seconds

The question really boils down to How can I disable or configure the delay between downloading photos during sync?

While monitoring the iCloud process and network traffic it appears that iCloud is only pulling one photo at 30 second intervals. (with a margin of error of around ~1s) The actual download speed doesn't appear to be capped.

This seems like an intentional design choice, probably to ensure that the user doesn't suffer from poor network performance when using other applications with iCloud in the background.

It isn't however ideal when I need to download 1,867 photos, and at the current rate that will take ~ 15 hours. I've already spent a day download them this point before deciding to log the network traffic. I do not suffer this problem with either OneDrive or Google Drive which are both synced my PC.

Any help would be great,

Thanks in advance.

Kieran

iCloud client version is 14.2.0.96

OS: Windows 11 22H2

Note: It's possible to observe the behaviour without any specialised tools simply by opening the network monitor in task manager (windows) and watching the received data spikes, while simultaneously clicking the iCloud sync application that displays the remaining files, the latter number will change within milliseconds of the single spike. In between each spike there will be an almost perfect 30 second gap as will there be between the next file to sync. I'd be curious to see who else is seeing this happen. (Using this crude method you need to keep other application traffic to a minimum)