Blazing fast internet connection, but still taking 4 hours to download a movie on Apple tv?

This apple tv has been nothing but a huge pain in the *** so far. I started watching a movie that I rented and then it stops 20 minutes into the movie and says it will need between 3 and 7 hours to download the rest and be ready to play. ***?

vazandrew -
I have seen you make several posts on different threads always pushing istumbler and namebench to help solve this problem.  While I do appreciate the help, it seems like you must work either for one of those companies or for Apple.  I own 4 Apple TV 3's in three different locations (my office, home, beach house).  I am having this problem at all three.  I too had ATV 2's before and had no problems with downloading movies/buffering.  The only common denominator for all three locations is they are all connected wirelessly through an Apple Time Capsule and are using high-speed cable Internet.  I am using my ISPs DNS in all three locations, have little to no interference, and have minimum internet speeds of 15 mbps.  Through process of elimination, the problem has to lie either with Apple or with my internet service provider.  The funny thing is I don't have internet problems with anything else.  I realize that an ethernet connection would make everything better, but that is not feasible.  Aren't the ATV's designed to be used wirelessly?  If it is a problem of "high traffic time" with my cable in the evenings, do you know of any way of getting my ISP to improve this?  Otherwise, it seems to be an Apple problem.  I will note that the iTunes store has gone offline several times in the last couple of weeks.  Again, this has never happened to me before.  Any help is much appreciated.  I am a devoted Apple user, and this is the first time I have been this frustrated.  Why pay for the fastest internet possible if my Apple TV is still not going to work?

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