Slow HD rental download - Fix

I spent forever looking for a fix to my sudden extremely slow HD rental loading times. We tried changing our DNS, switching to an ethernet cable over wireless, and anything else we could find. However, the instant solution seemed to be changing our download preference from HD to SD. The great thing is that once you have already started a rental download in HD, you can go and switch it to SD, have it load instantly, then change it back. Kind of a pain but saves a TON of time.
I hope this helps someone as much as it helped me!

SD rentals are cheaper than HD - why would you therefore rent in HD, then change the setting to watch in SD? (which I've never tried to confirm that it downloads SD version after making an HD rental).
I'm not sure this is expected behaviour.
Ac

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