Apple tv 1 slow download with strong network speed.

Have had the apple tv gen 1 for a long time with no issues. Quick download speeds, trailers etc worked and we could stream a movie with only 2 % o f the film downloaded. Now one hour to download at least.
Checked the wifi bandwidth and the network and all is super fast. Version of firmware is 3.0.2
Any ideas how to get back to my original download speeds ? Or is this an issue at the Apple end.
Thanks
C

There are two issues with the ATV2 that need fixed. I have a slow DSL internet hook up, but could still rent a movie with my ATV1 and start watching it in under 15 minutes or so. With my ATV2, I have to wait at least 1 hour to start watching an SD movie. Of course, we will never rent an HD movie on the ATV2 - tried that once - 61 hours for load time.
The second issue deals with restarting a current rent. We rented a movie tonight and let it take 55 minutes to load before we could start watching it. I assumed that if I stopped it for a few minutes (I needed to change an audio setting in the menu), that I could restart the movie without it having to totally reload. No deal. We had to wait another hour for reload. This seems like a simple software update fix. Anyone know if they are working on this?

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