Very slow download times

That's a rather sarcastic (and not very helpful) response. Did I use the expression "super fast fiber optic whizz-bang connection"? Did I at ANY point try to suggest that my internet connection was better than anyone else's? Saying that it is "a-ok" simply means it's been tested by my provider and performing how they would expect it to. I asked a perfectly legitimate and genuine question (from my perspective).

So how do you explain ALL my other internet usage running at normal speed. And I mean ALL (web pages, software updates, even Yosemite updates). How do you explain App updates direct to my phone, downloading 3 or 4 times faster over WIFI than over broadband? If anything, wifi should be slower because of external factors like building construction, distance from router etc.

iTunes downloads were all fast BEFORE the car crash that was last summers big iTunes update. It's only since then that they've slowed to a crawl.

I fully appreciate what you're saying. Apple don't provide a tailored update programme for individual users and that's perfectly understandable. I just don't understand why it WAS fast before last summers update and now its very slow, for me at any rate. I have a couple of devices that don't integrate with iTunes so I have to use a NAS in order to get music to them. But whether I download updates and music to the NAS or the computer, it's still slow.

I have sent a note to feedback (and also Tim Cook) but I don't expect a reply from the latter. He'll read it but that's about all.