Download takes forever

It started 3 weeks ago. Downloading music from iTunes takes forever. Just 2 songs took almost 8 minutes. When I tried to listen to song samples before I buy them, the opening URL pop up box comes out with a message: "rebuffering stream" making the samples hard to listen.... how can this be fix?

I notice the same thing if I download a few songs simultaneously, that it takes longer. It is due to my DSL download speed being slower (faster DSL speed is not available in my area at the moment )
As far as the rebuffering issue, go into iTunes>Edit>Preferences and under the Store tab, check the box next to "Load complete preview before playing". This will load the entire preview and then start playback. I set mine this way because of my slower DSL connection to make it possible to listen to the entire preview without pauses for rebuffering.

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