Why are My iTunes Downloads so Slow?

The answer should not be "change your DNS" apple should change their settings for THEIR customers.

i rented a movie watch on itunes... little did i know,,, it was going to take 4 hours to download..

i will not rent from itunes ever again... i suggest getting movies from other sources..

I don't think it's a problem with iTunes in general. I have a 150MB/Sec connection. I'm experiencing the same slow download problem you describe on one machine but not on any of the others on the same network. That leads me to believe that there is something going on with that one mac.

same thing here i usually get about 50mb/s on internet speed tests and i can stream hd video without any issues but iTunes is downloading the iPod software update at about 100 Kb per second. Not sure what is wrong or where to start looking to try to fix it

35 minutes here to download 2.32 Gb. I have a 10Mbps connection that on anything else would eat this kind off side up in around 2 minutes max. This is clearly Apple throttling speed at their end... Abysmal! and as others have pointed out, this has been going on for years.l

I'm trying to download the 10.11.4 update package. The 10.11.0 install took around 10 minutes to install.. This is ridiculous!

Apple have been getting progressively less User Friendly since Steve Jobs passed.... The Watch was supposed to the new next best thing--- where on Earth did they research that one? Mr. Tim has seriously lost the plot! No wonder they saw a loss this quarter and Carl Icahn has bailed on them. I can see this as the start of a trend and a long slippery slow to follow Micro$oft down the chute!ap

Sorry... This is an app store issue... but even so.. just as bad if not worse...

Tks. for mi it works 😉 tks

I will literally never buy anything again from the iTunes store. On a 30 mb/sec connection (tested) I have an 8 hour download time for a 2 gig, one hour show! While waiting, I downloaded a 900mb software suite in about 90 seconds. I could understand the wait if I'm sourcing pirated software, but good god, man. The show's going to be on Netflix by the time it's downloaded. It wouldn't even be so bad if their player would stream the already downloaded portion for ****.

Ok, I have 150 mbps download and 12 mbps upload so WHY again does an itunes song from apple servers download soooooo slowly? I have 6 albums waiting to download probably 50 songs waiting... waiting... now for 45 minutes and server has completed 3 song downloads????? Hello? why so slow?

Apple. Can you please give us an answer? Everything else is flying, but movie downloads are crawling.

It's 2017 and I am still facing this problem. It's the first time I rented a movie from iTunes and it is definitely my last time. I am never ever going to rent movies from iTunes again.

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I agree what’s the problem apple