Slow downloading from iTunes

Any idea why it takes 3 hours to download one 45 minute episode from iTunes? Do I need to change something in my settings?
Thanks, Tracy

In my case, at least, it has nothing to do with ISP throttling. I am able to download at from everywhere except the iTunes store. The problem is on their end, and it's ridiculous - especially when they advertise so heavily about the instantly availability of movies and music from iTunes store. They're unable to deliver the service they've advertised. It's no different than going to Blockbuster on a Saturday evening and finding them closed for no reason. And Apple will suffer the same fate Blockbuster did if they keep up providing crappy service.

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I have some information to add to this. I've been seeing these problems for quite some time since I started downloading in HD. My library is rather large so I too decided to use another drive. My case is different though I have and extra 2 TB internal drive and my media folder is on it. This rules out all Wifi, network, or USB bottlenecks as a cause of the problem. I have noted a few oddities about this behavior and I will mention them here although I am not sure what they mean.
1. If I set up a long list of downloads it seems to crawl on all downloads. If I kill the "apple push" process the top two seem to speed up. I have to maintain the list and only enable two downloads at a time to get anywhere near reasonble speeds but this method is great for one or two downloads at a time.
2. I was curious about this problem after watching it download for hours on a 24MBPS connection for just a few shows. When I did yet another search I finally found this thread so I thought checking something out might be interesting. I set up some HD movies to download on my secondary system that only has one hard drive. Although not at full speed they began downloading much faster. Three movies are all downloading on the single drive system faster than the one alone on the system with the Itunes media folder on a different drive.
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Finding this thread made me very curious I was wondering if there would be a performance boost if I uninstalled Itunes, and re-installed it on the media drive. I really wanted that drive to be storage only but it makes me wonder if it would give different results or the same problem from not being on the OS drive.
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Having just spent almost £550 on a wifi & cellular 64 gb iPad mini, I thought I was getting something that was state of the art !
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Slow downloads from iTunes

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