all app stores suddenly have extremely slow downloads

Since yesterday (January 28) downloads have been extremely slow for me here in the netherlands from the OS X and iOS app stores. (ive tested on 2 macs, a iphone 4, iPad and iPod Touch.) The speeds we're getting are below 23Kb/s (i'm on a 25 Mbit line.) Downloads from any other (non app store) source are fast as usual. I've noticed the same at the network at work so im sure it's not my connection or firewall or something.

Are there any known issues regarding this?

update: i just used the OS X Software update and it states that downloading 93Mb's wort of updates will take 3 to 4 hours! Seems all the apple Download servers serving the netherlands are slow as glue..

Message was edited by: dadj77

iPhone 4 | iPad 3G | iMac june 2009 model, 3,06 GHz, 4Gb | 2005 Intel Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.2), works on: 27" iMac, 8Gb Ram, 2.66GHz Intel Core i5, ATI Radeon HD 4850

Posted on Jan 28, 2011 11:47 AM

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