Extremely slow downloads of TV shows and music videos

Until around Feb 15th I had no problems downloading TV shows episodes in about 40 minutes time for ~500MB file. Since Feb 15 it takes about 40 to 48 hours (yes, HOURS!!!) for each episode to download. I purchased Madonna's Confessions Tour video (1.43GB) today and it also is slow as ****, showing 96 hours to finish, taking about 6 minutes to download just 1MB.
What a heck is going on?!!!
Emails to Apple support resulted in generic, bu*sht reply that I should have a broadband connection to download from iTunes Store, regardless the fact that I clearly explained in my emails that I have broadband cable connection and downloading for example 100MB file from Apple Support Downloads server takes me under 6 minutes. Subsequent emails with more explanations and speed tests results showing my connection's download at 1.94 MB/s resulted in reply "Sorry, we cannot help you as we are only dealing with basic iTunes support".
What a crap it is?!!!!
Anyone with the same problem? Anyone with a solution?

all i can do is agree with you- again very very slow in portugal from US site with high speed broadband and all the help i can give it at this end! made big mistake of buying all mythbusters, extreme engineering and shark week for my sons ipod in one chunk before i realised the slowness and had to leave my computer working away at downloading for 2-3 days!!! NIGHTMARE!
to top it all i now keep getting error code -100008 and am unable to download what i have bought even when i delete and check for purchases again.
judging from what you have all been saying it may be a while til i get a response from apple as to whats wrong!

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