Slow download on apple tv

Ah, do report back with how that goes. Especially during peak hours... I'm hoping it was just a temporary iTunes Store glitch over superbowl weekend or something...

Well its still loading slow but I got the message "ready to play in 31 min" instead of 3 hrs or 8 hrs

But I will keep trying at different times thru the day

Ok I think its fixed, I knew it had nothing to do with my speeds but i tried something,t I would not have tried this but it was the last thing I could think of, I did not make any changes to my firewall at all but it updates automatically so it could have been changed during an update.

I went to my firewall and added itunes.exe in the exceptions and "allow" to all settings

It was already there but it had prompt on some of the settings and in like 5 min my downloads started going from 2 hrs to 20 min and then I went to my apple tv and tried 3 tv shows from the "Purchased" section and all 3 started in like 5 to 10 SECONDS!

I hope that was the problem, I knew my speeds were fine but something was causing delay in streaming, it could also be that when I upgraded to itunes 10.5.3 or whatever latest version is, may have an issue with Vipre so I had to make sure all were "allow" and I saw everything working.

I will update today if it goes back to the way it was, if it stays normal then I will update tomorrow after 24 hrs to make sure all is ok

Hmmm... Sounds interesting. Thing is I don't use a Firewall on my network... =(

No firewall on your computer?

Ok how about a virus protection software thats real-time active?

for some reason it has worked for me on my itunes on my pc( which makes sense) but also my apple tv

I got rid of my virus protection software. Huge resource vampire for mediocre protection. =P I mean I do have a firewall, I just don't use it. In my D-Link router, I'm gonna try directing iTunes port traffic to my ATV2 and see if that helps. I know that helped a lot with torrents and some games I've got... I won't know until I can test it tonight though. =(

I should also try that for steam and torrents

Nope, no improvement... Still saying 54 minute wait for a 20 minute show... >=(

Sorry to hear that, for me this did the trick. So far I have not had any issues but im home today planing on using it so I hope it good today

Hmmm... So I cycled my router after my test and the speeds were good... The speeds were good this morning too. Might have done the trick... Or it could have just been off peak hours. I'll try again tonight during peak hours and see if it's still good...

I hope this did the trick...

Fail... Peak hours right now... Still 1.5 hours to start a 40 min show from iTunes store. I also hooked up a laptop before and after I tried... 25mbps download speed.

Argh! ***?! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

My issues seems cured, today it worked fine, I did have my movie rental stop in the middle because of buffering but at least the wait time to watch anything streamed from itunes is back to normal.

I still want to know why i had to make the changes on my firewall when for years I never had to?

I hope you figure your issue out and I will keep looking on the boards to see if anyone else has the same problem

Yeah, I'm gonna try calling apple care tomorrow... See if they can guide me...

Spoke with AppleCare... they're stumped. =P

I have full bandwidth (25mbps downstream) Ethernet hooked right up to Apple TV 2. I have no firewall configured. All other content works flawlessly: YouTube, AirPlay, Netflix, Home Sharing, etc. iTunes Store seems affected by peak hours (which doesn't make sense). I've hit the Genius Bar and replaced ATV2, no difference. I've called AppleCare, they're stumped. I've contacted iTunes Store support (at the suggestion of AppleCare), so far they've only thrown links at me as suggestions, all of which I've already tried.

I just tested and downloaded a TV show straight to my iTunes library on my desktop... at 1MB/sec. That's less than a THIRD of what my connection is capable... and that was directly to my PC.

I'm more and more beginning to think that this whole problem is on iTunes Store server side. Perhaps just in my local area? I don't see how, though, when most everyone else seems to be getting acceptable performance. I don't need FULL SPEED, I just need ACCEPTABLE speed. I'm sorry, but waiting 2 hours for a 45 minute show is UNACCEPTABLE.

Talk to your ISP and maybe get a technician out to check on things.