Apple TV rented/purchased content streaming slowly

Hi All,
I apologize if this thread is out there, but I have looked all morning and can't seem to find a good answer or fix. I am running an apple TV off of a netgear wireless router with decent cable internet speeds. Things like airplay, playing content from itunes library work great. Netflix works pretty good too (although slower than when through my xbox)  The main thing is - renting or buying movies off of the apple tv (not through a computers itunes) is nightmareishly slow! Sometimes for SD movies it wants 4 hours to load. Is this the norm? if so it seriously limits the usefulness of the apple tv. For everything else it is pretty good, but this bug has got me considering a return. Does anyone have any suggestions or tweaks that I can do to keep me from returning this little black box? thanks a lot

941 Kbps is approximately 1 Mbps, it's reccomended that you have at least 6 Mbps for HD content and 2.5 Mbps for SD content.
Internet TV and netflix are slightly different, Internet TV is just poor quality/low datarates, netflix can vary it's quality according to your connection speed and can go as low as 0.5 Mbps (which is poor quality)
Unless you upgrade your Internet service there isn't much you can do about your download speeds, but downloading at those speeds to the Apple TV will be tedious as it will tie up the Apple TV until the download is complete. You might want to think about downloading to your computer in advance, it won't be much (if any faster) but it will be much more convenient.
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