11 hour wait time for movie rental!

Over Christmas I got a 2nd generation Apple TV. I was excited but didn't have the time to try it out until tonight. I rented Iron Man 2 in HD and after letting it load for over an hour, I came back to watch it, only to see a wait time of over 11 hours. Is their anything I can due to speed it up? I have no problems renting movies on my macbook. I'm very frustrated.

I'm not an expert either, but the basic idea is that the DNS servers route the internet traffic and commonly cache web pages to speed them up. DNS services claim to be faster than your internet provider and usually provide some claimed protection against fraudulent sites. They also offer some filtering options.
I was using OpenDNS. You can get the idea of what it does here: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/household/
However, if you don't know what it is, then you're probably not using it. You would have to deliberately set it up.
I may be wrong, but I think the idea that these services cause an issue is that your download has to go through the one place rather than finding the fastest place. So, there is a backlog with lots of people now downloading internet video. I've read in a few spots that this is B.S., but since I'm not a computer engineer, I really don't know either. I can only say that on the one test, it was faster without OpenDNS than it was with it.
I'm going to keep trying and see. I'd rather keep OpenDNS if I can.

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