Extremely slow iTunes download

Recently, my iTunes has been EXTREMELY slow at downloading things as small as a podcast. I'm currently trying to download a podcast and it says that there is 24 minutes remaining on 88.2 MB podcast. Can anyone explain to me what's going on?

Oh, thanks! I also noticed that I can't listen to the 30 second samples any more because the stream always interrupts Seems to be a problem with iTunes Europe
Are there any more information available... when will the problem be solved (maybe some Apple employees are reading the Discussions too

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