ITunes music store veryyyyy slow

I can get onto Mozilla and Internet Explorer with great connection speeds, however itunes is the problem. I am downloading an episode of The Office, which normally took a little less than 5 minutes, but it is taking up to 80 hours to download. I live in a college dorm, and the same problem is also happening to my roomate, and another person across the hall, but I haven't asked anyone else yet though. I upgraded to itunes 7 before this problem happened, and my roomate was still on itunes 6 when his music store started going slow. I tried flushing out my DNS like a help topic told me to, but that didn't help, and i don't think i have any pop up software to delete, can anyone help me?

I am haveing the same issue when first opening the music store. I never had a problem before when using iTunes version 6 but since I upgraded to 7 I can not open the store or my shopping cart. I tried clearing the dns and that did not work either.

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