Itunes Podcast Download so slow?

Finally tired of the slow podcast downloads on my Itunes on my Macbook Pro wanted to ask what I can do to increase the rate? I have 25 MB/sec internet that works great for Netflix and all other websites. BUT for Itunes it takes forever to attempt to buy a movie rental I always give up. Any advice much appreciated!

There may be a number of reasons. What is the actual speed of your internet connection (speedtest.net). Are you trying to download SD or HD iTunes movies.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3780
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Restart your iPhone.
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It takes me, and others, 11 minutes to download our new episode (69MB) from iTunes. Other people's podcasts, of a similar size, I can download in 1 or 2 minutes.
My internet speed is solid, and I've just contacted godaddy support, and they insist that it's an iTunes problem; as downloading episodes from our RRS feed directly is very quick. Additionally, I'm on win7 with iTunes v11.0.4, but have recieved complaints from mac users as well.
I cleared my roaming iTunes cache manually, as well as through the iTunes preferences, and restarted to no effect.
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