8 hours to download?

I'm downloading the itunes 64 bit Vista edition and it's telling me that it's going to take 8 hours! When I downloaded itunes for my old Win XP computer, I don't remember it taking nearly as much time. Is this to be expected or not? My cable internet connection is good and runnning at 100.0 Mbps. Thanks.

I've tried Filehippo and I've tried several other sites. I've even tried downloading an older version of itunes that's not as large. The transfer rate starts out good but then it gets really small (currently it's 910 bytes/second). Every place I've been to has a download time of 8 to 18 hours. Is there something not set up right on my computer's internet?

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