Over 24 hours to download less than 2-1/2 hours of TV reruns.

Is there some way of prompting iTunes Store to speed up a download to a rate of speed measurable in Kbps rather than simply in bytes per second?
For the past several months, iTunes Store has been really unreliable in mantaining a feasable rate of download. But this time really cuts it.
I bought 3 episodes of "The Universe" a good 18 hours ago and they haven't all finished downloading on a broadband connection that doesn't even notice what little bit of nothing iTunes is doing. I still have three files in the process of downloading: two low-def files showing 5 hours remaining each and one HD file showing 13 hours remaining.
I have experienced unpredicatably slow downloads from iTunes Store on two different broadband ISPs, both Norton and McAfee antivirus, neither of which is blocking iTunes from using the internet, and 32-bit iTunes on 32-bit XP as well as 64-bit iTunes on 64-bit Windows 7.
I have quit renting movies from iTunes because I can't get them when I have time to watch them and am considering consigning iTunes to the content I already have and buying all future content from other sources.
A complaint to the email support form on this site got a pre-written reply pasted in about what to do about something blocking iTunes from connecting at all. Probably too much to ask that my reply be forwarded to the supervisor of the employee who pasted that in to a response apparently without bothering to read the complaint to which he was calling himself addressing.

"Norton & McAfee? I hope they're not both installed on the same PC! You could also try temporarily turning them off - they might not be blocking the itunes store connecting, but real-time scanning the files being downloaded and causing that to be really slow."
I mean that the problem has come and gone unpredictably for a period of time during which I have changed each of those things. Different ISP (both broadband), uninstalling Norton and installing McAfee because Norton's website didn't want to function as advertised on the renewal and upgrade, trying instead to steer me to the more expensive new purchase of the upgraded product, and finally upgrading my computer from Windows XP to Windows 7, which required a clean install of a new system.
This and the sometimes does, sometimes doesn't nature of the sluggish downloads suggests to me that the problem is at Apple's end as a server getting busy and not wanting to send data out at a feasable rate of transfer. This because of the things I've seen happen on-line that is the one thing with which the problem is consistent, and happens regardless of what else I do or don't do on my computer while buying downloads. Not to mention the CPU meter gadget showing no difference in CPU and memory usage between downloading (at a fraction of dial-up speed over my broadband connection) or not.
"'I have quit renting movies from iTunes because I can't get them when I have time to watch them and am considering consigning iTunes to the content I already have and buying all future content from other sources.'
Definitely an option, if you don't want to hassle with MSCONFIG."
And for that I'm marking your reply as a solution to my question.

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