Slow apple tv download

Seriously 57 hours to download a movie on apple tv ???   Have 15 Mbps service, which is about as fast as it gets without a T1 line...
Ok - very unlikely to do this a second time.

The Apple TV itself is the bottleneck.  The problem is not bandwidth.
My home theatre system uses Apple TV for most content.  I also use a MacMini for the few DVDs I have and for EyeTV television recording.
Same as all the posts to this thread - performance slowed badly the last few months.
However, I notice that if I download rentals and purchased movies through iTunes on the MacMini, it works as the Apple TV did before.  That is, start the download and wait a minute or so and then watch the movie end to end without interruption.
Also, iTunes allows me to cache the full movie if I give myself a few minutes prior to the time I want to watch something.
Not great.  But it works.
Melbourne Australia

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