very slow download from iTunes store today 6/18/2010

I am having the same issues with download speeds from iTunes. It has reached the point where I will no longer be purchasing content on iTunes due to the poor download speeds. The most recent example: It gave me an estimate of 7hrs to download the newest iOS4.01 upgrade...INSANE. Infact most of the time the downloads will just stop and sit there with no progress.

I have triple checked everything on my end and it is nothing to do with my internet connection. The only issue I have with connection speeds is when dealing with iTunes.

Fix it apple, I am coming very close to throwing the towel in on iTunes.

Still slow. Was better last week, but still slow, downloading HD TV show, takes too long..pfff

It just took me 8 minutes to download a song that normally takes less than a minute-- hmmm... what gives?

Hi,

Did you ever resolve this? I'm simply downloading a 50 mb file from the iTunes Store and it is taking 90 minutes... and counting!

Thanks,
Cliff

I noticed that a few of us are in CA. I'm in the OC and my itunes download speeds are at about 50KB on a 15MB connection. Every other site is super fast, even the speakeasy download speed test. I just moved from utah and never had that issue there. I suspect that Cox is throttling the connection. Who else uses Cox?

I'm averaging 175 KB/s with an itunes TV episode rental which takes about 3 painful hours to download.

Whats interesting is when I download two rentals (2 with +simultaneous downloads+ checked), the combined download speed roughly doubles

So:
Single HD rental download ((greys anatomy season 7 ep1) for my wife:) )
= avg. 175KB/s

and when 2 at the same time:

(greys anatomy season 7 ep1)
+
(greys anatomy season 7 ep2)
= avg. 430KB/s

Weird & a bummer...

I have a premium connection through comcast in san francisco. Speedtest.net is yielding about 3MB/sec
The computer is is directly connected to a gigabit router, then the cable modem.

So much for impulse rentals...

I have been experiencing slow iTunes downloads as well, and this article showed up in my RSS reader this morning:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/20/appletv_itunes_downloads_slowed_by_googledns.html

It seems to only be speculation at this time (nothing confirmed by Apple), but using an alternate DNS service such as Google DNS or OpenDNS might be to blame.

I am indeed using Google DNS and reverting back to my ISP's DNS as I write this post, so I can't comment on it yet but I'll report back to this thread in a few days with my results (improvements or status quo in iTunes download speed).

If anybody following this thread is using an alternate DNS service, it would be helpful to get your results as well to see if it is indeed the cause of slow downloads.

Pascal

In was having the same issue and saw your post about Google DNS. I had switched to google after an outage and my apple tv gen 2 was showing 4 hours for download while my speed tests were at 10 mbit/sec. I removed the google DNS and I could start playback instantly.

So it definitely worked for me.

An update: I still get slowdowns, but for some reason reconnecting to the wireless network seems to resolve this briefly. I am sure my network is working properly as I run speed tests on other computers. Strange...

This is why I have no guilt for downloading TV and Movies from other places on the internet for free. i was trying to download an episode of Luther on my Apple TV 2, but instead of paying .99 cents and waiting three hours, I think I'd rather download it from rapidshare or MIRC in about two minutes. Screw you Apple.

I'm getting crazy slow speeds for a 3.3 GB HD movie. The other two files in the download were fine (regular movie and the extras). It is downloading 1 MB in about 15 minutes!!!! I have an 8 Mbps internet connection, and just downloaded a 100 MB music album in 3 minutes. It seems to just be slow on the very large file. I contacted my ISP (Roger's in Canada) and they claim it is not their fault (if anything I would expect them to throttle only p2p downloads). Sometimes I get connection errors (which is strange because the connection to my wireless router is perfect--1 ms pings).

At this rate it will be weeks to download this one movie (this is a purchased movie, not a rental).

Anyone have this dramatic difference between the speed of HD movie download and other purchases??

Exactly the same problem here. Download speeds seem to be particularly (read excruciatingly) slow for HD movie downloads - it's currently saying another 8 hours ⚠ for the remaining 900MB of a 1.81 file which has already taken 4 hours. And the download keeps stopping (error 3150). Other downloads (ie outside iTunes) are fine and browser and other speeds are fine. It must be in the iTunes server. Not good if they want to keep me buying stuff.....

so how did you "delete the Google DNS".... I am getting 300+ hour download times for a single movie (5-9GB HD movies).... why bother?

I'm getting 50kb/s downloads on a 15mbps connection. First and last movie I'll ever get from iTunes.

I'm getting extremely slow download speeds the last few day, before that it was no problem and I didn't change anything in my configuration!??