ITunes downloads SLOW

Rebooted, reinstalled iTunes, etc. iTunes downloads are excruciatingly slow. Been downloading iPad IOS5 for hours now, still shows 8 hours remaining ~ for just 716MB download. I have 20Mbit cable modem, everything else is flying fast download wise. Just did a speed test and ran @ 17.93Mbp
Anybody else having issues?
Thanks

I'm going to post this in several threads. I hate doing that so I apologize but I hope more people can see this as it very well may be the issue for many.
Six months ago I had a very similar issue to the one I just started having in the past couple days. My speed tests were great and I have a 10Mbit DSL connection. Downloads from what appeared to be anywhere were great except from Apple. Apple said there was no problem. My ISP said there was no problem. I was very persistant with my ISP though and after a month of my ISP insisting there wasn't a problem or that the problem was me or Apple, they finally found a problem on what they called their DS3 going back to the Main Switch on my Line Group.
So back to the past couple of days. Same problem. Today I contacted the person I was in talking with six months ago at my ISP to see if it's on their end. They just got back to me that it was indeed their DS3 again. My download speed from Apple is back to normal. Very odd that I was only seeing an issue with Apple's servers though.

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