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

Seems to be much better now (7:37 EDT) Getting about 1.2MB/sec which is a 40% of what my internet connection is capable of, but it's certainly good enough to start watching while downloading.

Maybe the squeaky wheel does get the grease.

Yet again, the download performance from iTunes is hovering around 150 - 190KB / second, which is unacceptable for HD movie downloads. I'm wondering if something got messed up with the recent 9.2 upgrade. Seems to be very coincidental.

I'm starting to think that iTunes is folding. I've seen poor performance in the past, but it's now been 3 days that download performance has been sketchy to non-existent. There was a brief moment when the performance was close to par, but that didn't last long.

Can somebody else confirm that performance is slow.

Quite right, Apple doesn't respond here, nor should there be any such expectation.

On a more positive note I did contact Tech Support, and they gave me 1) the usual song and dance about the unpredictability of the internet, but 2) a two song credit to my account for my troubles. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but a step in the right direction.

I would suggest that if you're experiencing very slow downloads, as seems verified here, then open a support ticket.

I'm guessing once the millions upon millions of iPhone / iPod owners finish downloading the iOS 4 update, and the surge of iPhone 4 users also finish setting up their accounts, then the apple grove may get back to normal.

It's now coming close to 10 days since I first noticed download performance being a disaster.

Because I'm a sucker for punishment, I decided to purchase another movie (2.03 GB) and ITunes is claiming that it will be here in 25 hours! (should be about 11 minutes)

I'm now guessing that we can look forward to disastrous D/L performance for the rest of the summer as the world gets their new phones, and 200K apps are updated to the OS4 feature set.

The frustrating thing at this point is that having now purchased about 1 TB of content from iTunes, they have me. If I could take my digital media with me, and shop somewhere else I would. Sadly I suspect that's part of their master plan. Very disappointing.