Podcasts downloading extremely slowly

I'm an avid podcast listener and have never had any trouble in the past. But, this week all of my podcasts are downloading extremely slowly. They all have been taking 1-6 hours to download, when I'm used to times around 1-5 minutes. My internet connection is still fast and works as expected for everything else. I am also able to download podcasts from their websites/RSS feeds at the usual 1-5 minute rate, so this seems to be exclusively an itunes problem.

Assuming that you mean slower than usual, there can be several reasons why that can happen:
The internet is slow because it's Friday night and everyone's on it.
There is a special event on the internet, so more people than usual are using it.
Your internet connection is slow because of poor weather. (My internet fails if we have heavy rain!)
Other people in your house are using the internet connection at the same time as you and sharing one connection. The more people using it, the smaller (slower) each share.
You have an insecure internet connection and all your neighbours are using your connection.
The Podcaster's server (where the Podcast is stored) is slow.
The Podcaster's server is overloaded by requests for the popular Podcast.
Your ISP is throttling your connection speed
You could use a speedchecker to test your connection. Remember to ask everyone else to stay offline while you test.

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