Downloading a song from Itunes takes me about 1 hour, and a TV show (of 50 minutes in length) approximately 24 hours. Any suggestions on how to correct these extremely slow (and frustrating) downloads would be greatly appreciated.
Are you on dial-up? Those are horrible download times.
Upgrading Internet would help greatly.
Are you on dial-up? Those are horrible download times.
Upgrading Internet would help greatly.
I went to the Apple store, and they indicated that the problem lied with my wireless internet connection. I called my internet provider which confirmed that there was indeed a problem. Thanks for your answer!
Having a wireless connection should have no bearing on wether or not you can connect or download from the iTunes store. I've experienced issues with iTunes for months, and have always gotten the same line of BS from Apple with regard to the slowness - - that it's my wireless connection, or that it's my router, or that it's my ISP, or it's some setting in my browser, or it's some unsubstantiated problem with my Mac/PC/i-whatever. The one thing I have noticed is that slowness/outages from iTunes are more likely to happen on weekends as their servers become overloaded. Hopefully, issues with iTunes should improve when the NC data center comes on line -- but I wouldn't count on it being better for long.
As for Apple: they need to learn to acknowledge problems when they occur. In this respect they are worse than Microsoft.
I had huge slowdowns on weekends as well, especially Friday and Saturday nights, until I changed my router back to using my ISPs DNS servers from OpenDNS. Apparently Google DNS and OpenDNS steer iTunes users to a very limited set of iTunes/Akamai servers, causing huge congestion on the weekends. After I changed the DNS poiter in the router, my download time went from 500minutes to 30minutes for a 3GB HD movie.
Google "Akamai iTunes slow download" for more information.
Slow Itunes Downloads?
