Apple server : slow download

Hi, I'd like to know why are apple servers always so slow, two days ago I downloaded iOS 8.1 for my iphone and I add to wait some hours, with a download speed of 100kbs. And now i'm downloading Yosemite and it's the same. And all my friends have this problem with apple servers, even the night it's still slow, anytime of the day. I live in France for more precision. Maybe the problem is only located in my country. And the problem is not from my connection, I can download everything at 2mbps. Except when it's from apple's servers.
Thanks

I still do many things with iTunes. I still backup my iPad with iTunes. But like I said, doing the OTA updates is great.... far less time consuming because of the size of the downloaded file.
And ... Mrsarcastic ....I do not think that Apple is capping the download speed. Even when I updated from 4.3.5 and had to do it with iTunes - before OTA updates were available - it only took me about 90 minutes - start to finish - to download, install, restore from backup and sync my iPad one - with iOS 5.

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Apple tv Slow download

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Virgin Media spend all kinds of money advertising their broadband as the fastest in the UK, but don't tell you (up front anyway) that you'll be cut off if you actually try and use it.
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How many thousands of Apple TV users have to scream their complaints before Apple will respond to the fury over the impossibly slow download speeds of movies bought through iTunes??????

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As jules says, your rate (currently at least) may be slow.
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True, and I kinda forgot about that little detail. Let me ask you this. I have 30 or 40 podcasts that I subscribe to. Even for podcasts where there is no new content to download, the time from click to complete is inordinately long. A refresh of my entire podcast library can take upwards of 5 minutes or more, which is uncharacteristically long for me.
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