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Why are My iTunes Downloads so Slow?

I have a 30 Mbps internet connection. When I run a speed test against my connection I almost always hit 30 Mbps. However, when I download podcasts and other files from iTunes my download speeds max out at just over 7 Mbps. I ran the diagnostics in iTunes and everything checked out fine. Any ideas on why I getting such a slow download speed?

Windows 7

Posted on Apr 17, 2012 5:18 PM

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Posted on Apr 18, 2012 1:19 PM

I can't help, but by way of confirmation, I typically get a 12 hour forecast for downloading a SD movie on a PC.

This is not your system.


I have to stay up tending the computer- it may speed up overnite. Sometimes it loses even that which it had and starts over.

It's not my system. Netflix streams away with never a buffering moment, reliably, any time of day.


I wish, when the issue is clearly Itunes/apple only issue , they would stop dishing out the usual suspects which a savvy user will haved tried a million times already. It's a terrible time waster.

I'd fell much better if they said " We have server and distributor issues, we're sorry and we are fixing it."

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May 1, 2016 11:37 PM in response to Griff1324

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...

Jun 6, 2016 9:46 PM in response to Griff1324

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 ****.

Why are My iTunes Downloads so Slow?

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